DEBKAfile "The Iraqi army, for its part, has been virtually wiped out,
along with the many billions of dollars the US spent on training and
weapons. There is no longer any military force in Iraq, whether Sunni or
Shiite, able to take on ISIS and loosen its grip on the central and
western regions.
"The Kurdish peshmerga army, to whom President Barack
refused to provide armaments for combating the Islamists, has run out of
steam. An new offensive would expose the two main towns of the
semi-autonomous Kurdish Republic – the capital Irbil and the oil city of
Kirkuk – to the depredations of the Islamist belligerents."
. . .
"The Obama administration can no longer pretend that the pro-Iranian
Shiite militias are the panacea for the ISIS peril. Like Assad, Tehran
too is being forced to regroup. It is abandoning the effort to uproot
the Islamists from central and western Iraq and mustering all its Shiite
military assets, such as the Badr Brigade, to defend the Shiite south -
the shrine towns of Najef and Karbala, Babil (ancient Babylon) and
Qadisiya – as well as planting an obstacle in the path of the Islamists
to Iraq’s biggest oil fields and only port of Basra." . . .
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