[allendale]

The US cannot be too picky about who it supports. If any group is doing the hard on the ground work of engaging ISIS, be they Kurds, Iraqis, Sunni tribesmen, Lebanese, Syrian or Iranian, they should receive discreet and effective air support. Only committed infantry willing to risk all can win a war. The American people will not support the long term deployment of US ground forces. Nor does Obama have the capability or disposition to be an effective, fierce wartime President

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The US cannot be too picky about who it supports."

I disagree. No one has any qualms about supplying the Pershmerga forces with arms and support. The Kurds are our strongest ally in the region. We should be buying the oil they are shipping through Turkey also instead of letting it sit off the coast because the Iraqi government claims it's theirs. The rest of these forces I am very wary of. I guess we have to supply the Iraqi army even though they are dicey, but I wouldn't supply any of these "freedom fighters" in Syria.

More and more, this looks like the Spainish Civil War of the 30's. No good guys as far as we're concerned.