I think it is appalling how little the West is doing to help the Kurds compared to what the West could be doing. The Kurds in Rojava are determined and courageous fighters, but have early Cold War weapons and no tanks. They have had to build makeshift tanks out of dumpsters and trucks. If the West would give the Kurds modern high-tech weaponry and proper tanks I have no doubt they would decimate ISIS in a few months. The Kurds are already winning the Siege of Kobani (ISIS controls less than 20% of the city at the time this is being written) without tanks, I would like to see what they could do with tanks. In the 1980's the CIA armed the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan, who later became the Taliban. Many of the people involved in that project say it was worth it to hurt Russia. If hurting Russia is important enough to justify arming the Taliban, then hurting ISIS should jutify whatever damage the Kurds might later do, if any at all.
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