Kurds from Turkey, Syria Enter Iraq to Battle Islamic State

[politicman]

7. we need to wake up and see that this group is not that easy to beat as many think it is...

Come on, lets not let what we all wish to happen cloud the reality on the ground.

The reality is that ISIS is showing themselves to be more than capable of battling on multiple fronts and holding their own, even capturing more and more land as the days go on.

Nobody wants ISIS to gain more land and commit more horrors, but until we wake up to the true reality of the situation we wont find a proper response.

And the true reality is that ISIS has taken vast swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, they are currently in control of a town in Lebanon (a very strategic town that they know could ignite sectarian passions in Lebanon and gibe them still more recruits from another country), they have plenty of weapons and money and they have the tactical nous to accomplish what they set out to do.

Now when we can understand that, we can realize that Iraq or the Kurds or Syria or Lebanon or even help from Iran has been and will be unable to defeat them.

Whats needed is to face reality (not what we wish would happen) and then discuss methods for defeating them.