The Kurds Deserve Independence

Our slow march to an ISIS strategy ends, for now, with President Obama's speech tonight. But as the details of his plans trickle out, there is still room for some new thinking. Holding Iraq together with training, foreign aid and diplomatic pressure has been tried and failed. Perhaps it is time to turn elsewhere. Our last and best hope of turning the tide against the Islamist thugs could be the powerful and motivated Kurdish people, especially their valiant army, the peshmerga.

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters hold their position
Tuesday east of Mosul in their ongoing battles with I
SIS terrorists. Photo: JM Lopez, AFP/Getty Images

Forget having to train or advise these Kurdish warriors. All the peshmerga really needs to turn into the true steel tip of the sword are the right hardware and some assurance that the endgame will involve an independent Kurdistan. If we lose sight of this reality, the United States and the West have lost before the battle is joined. You can bet that the pathetic Iraqi army, backed by a new but shaky government, will make zero headway against the Islamic State. We'll be in for years of violence and turmoil spreading across the region and, all too quickly, to our shores.

Wrong reasons

Officially, Obama sent U.S. warplanes into action to drive ISIS forces from the Mosul dam while protecting Iraqi religious minorities and protecting the Kurdish capital of Irbil. All good reasons for intervention.

The right reason would have been to help the Kurds achieve independence. That we took any initiative on behalf of the Kurds was because it furthered our own misguided goal. For years and at a cost of thousands of lives, we have sought to hold together a dysfunctional Iraqi nation to which few Kurds have any real loyalty and for which they would hardly lay down their lives.

Read the rest of the op-ed HERE and view a related video below:

The Kurds are ready for action against ISIS ... They've GOT THE HEART ... All they need is the Proper Equipment.

Maybe Barry could send them some of the Heavy equipment he's sending to U.S. Police Forces:

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