Was my blog post of 17 July. Today in the New York Times article on the Jhadist routing the Kurds we see "even the pesh merga are not up to the fight with ISIS. Kurdish officials have complained of a lack of ammunition and begged American diplomats for more weapons. But the United States, so far, has held off on significant arms shipments to the Kurds, fearing that it could undermine the central government in Baghdad. Now, the Kurds have been battling a group of militants from ISIS who are using powerful American weapons they took from the battlefield, left by the Iraqi Army. “They are literally outgunned by an ISIS that is fighting with hundreds of millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment seized from the Iraqi Army who abandoned it,” Mr. Khedery said."
1st observation is that there must be some Bathist Sunni elements teaching ISIS how to use these armored carriers
2nd what will keep these same weapons we supply Egypt from being turned around and used against us when General Sisi's regime blows up?
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