Another contributing factor to the hysteria over ISIS may be the elements of the media that love to exaggerate any Western setbacks and to accentuate the menace of Islam. In both, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers were killed, captured or deserted their posts, at a loss of only a few hundred on our own side). (Similar patterns help explain the astonishing success of the Allies in the Gulf War of 1991 and the Iraq War of 2003. Anwar Muslim, the Kurdish leader in the town, said Thursday that Turkey’s refusal to allow much-needed weapons across the border to aid its defence “raised questions” about Ankara’s loyalties.īut in an interview, Cemal Hasimi, adviser to Ahmet Davutoglu, the Turkish prime minister, said Kobani was a distraction from the need for a wider settlement to end the war in Syria, including the defeat of ISIS.Īs I and other commentators have suspected, the long-term military threat from ISIS has been exaggerated - partly because of its psychotic desire to disgust all civilization with filmed and televised decapitations of the innocent and partly because ISIS’ advances have been largely earned at the expense of Iraq’s instantly collapsing army, some members of whom buried their uniforms in order to surrender, in their underwear, as purported civilians.
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