How do you propose we adequately equip and supply it if we are then denied over flight rights to that base by the countries which surround it? Kurdistan is land locked.
Iraq is to the south, Turkey is to the north, and Iran is to the east. The only way in and out is to the west - and that is over Syria, whom we are bombing, and Iraq if one can figure out where the new Kurdistan border is.
Which of these can we depend upon to be our friends, again?
Now if we had maintained a residual force in Iraq this would be a piece of cake. But 0bama made sure we didn't. All our strategic positioning in the Middle East since we invaded Iraq is gone, p!ssed away.
US Air Force....I guess you are to young to remember the Berlin Air lift.....we didn’t ask permission...and that was the USSR!!!