ISIS on the move: Kurds brace for a massacre in Kobani
Hopefully no one gives the Fundraiser-in-Chief an update on his non-war against the non-Islamic Islamic State while gets ready for the seven big-bucks cash parties he's holding this week. It would ruin his mood, and if I shelled out $10,000 for dinner to hear him talk, I'd want to see him upbeat and smiling.
While Obama raises funds from Democrats, the Islamic State is preparing to raze an important Kurdish city. Somehow ISIS is still on the move, despite all that American bombing, and it's on the verge of overrunning a Syrian Kurdish town called Kobani, located near the Turkish border. If Kobani falls, not only will the strategic loss to the Kurds be considerable, but unspeakable atrocities on a huge scale would be perpetrated by the victorious Islamic State. Fox News and the Associated Press report on the situation.
ISIS doesn't sound very "degraded," so I guess their "ultimate destruction" is going to have to wait for a while. The Kurds are putting up a stiff fight, and as the AP notes, American air power has been brought to bear… but the fate of Kobani is still very much in doubt, to the degree that thousands of women and children are being evacuated into Turkey. Turkish ground forces could turn the tide, but they've so far been a very passive member of Obama's Coalition of the Unwilling, parking some armor on the Syrian border to keep ISIS at bay, but not seeking battle with the Islamic State. In fact, they seem more concerned about preventing a mass exodus of routed Kurds onto Turkish soil, leading to demonstrations by unhappy Kurds across Turkey, and even beyond – Kurds living in the Netherlands stormed the Parliament building on Monday night, demanding stronger Western action to prevent the fall of Kobani. There have been water-cannon and tear-gas riots along the Syrian border for weeks...Also read:
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