Limited war woes

Fox News reports that yet another Iraqi city, largely occupied by Shi’ites, is being surrounded by ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State troops and it’s in danger of suffering the same fate as some Yazidis a few weeks ago.

Militants have surrounded the small Shia Turkmen community of Amerli, roughly 110 miles north of Baghdad, drawing comparisons to Islamic State’s siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of Yazidi were trapped for weeks before U.S. air strikes drove the militants away and allowed the innocent civilians to escape the bloodthirsty jihadists. But this time, those trapped are Shia Muslims, who are reviled by the mostly Sunni Islamic State fighters.

That’s the problem with restricting yourself with short term, limited military solutions to problems – you’re constantly stomping out the little brush fires. This administration can’t come up with a strategy for wiping out the threat from those guys who keep changing their name, so they’re relegated to the duties of a volunteer fire department, reacting to the enemy’s strategy which is dependent on their own whims about who they want to victimize tomorrow.

Albayati said the town has been trying to fend off the militants for 70 days and are now left without electricity and drinking water. And unlike recent U.S. intervention to save members of the Yazidi religious trapped who were trapped on Mount Sinjar in northwestern Iraq, there are currently no plans for a rescue operation.

“The situation of the people in Amerli is desperate and demands immediate action to prevent the possible massacre of its citizens,” UN Iraq envoy Nickolay Mladenov said in a statement.

Last I checked, the Iraqis have an Air Force, too. 70 days they’ve been fighting a siege battle without help from their own government?

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