U.S. air strikes since Friday have opened a corridor through which tens of thousands of Yazidis, trapped and starving on a mountain in Iraq, have escaped to safety in Kurdistan.
The Kurds, whose peshmerga fighters were sent reeling by the Islamic State last week, bolstered now by the arrival of U.S. air power, recaptured two towns. But the peshmerga have apparently lost the strategically important town of Jalawla, 20 miles from Iran, the furthest east that ISIS forces have penetrated.
Last week's gains by the Islamic State caused Republican hawks to flock to the Sunday talk shows.
"ISIS is a direct threat to the United States of America," said Rep. Peter King. Sen. John McCain called for bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
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Folks are saying we should have left a residual force in Iraq and we could have kept ISIS at bay. If it took a surge of over 20000 additional troops to keep sectarian violence at bay in 2007, how many troops would we have had to leave to have prevented this from happening. There was no way we could have won this thing in the long term.
Islam awaits the anti christ....they are pure satanic evil ....satans warriors
Less than six months ago, John McCain was sending the rebel forces aid when they were actually ISIS forces. This week, he wants to bomb them into last Tuesday!
OBIDYOBIDYOBIDYOBIDY..Make up your mind, John, or at least step out of the room and stfu.
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