ISIL is marching through city after city in Iraq, and they are doing it with American weapons. Thanks to a series of stunning victories in recent months, ISIL has captured a vast array of U.S. military equipment including trucks, Humvees, rockets, artillery pieces and Stinger missiles.
When the U.S. was pulling out of Iraq, we were extremely generous to the new Iraqi army. We basically armed them to the teeth with equipment that U.S. taxpayers paid for. But now that the new Iraqi army is folding like a 20 dollar suit in the face of ISIL jihadists, vast quantities of that military equipment are falling into the hands of some of the most radical jihadists the world has ever seen.
And considering the fact that ISIL also recently seized the equivalent of nearly $500 million in cash from a bank in Mosul, the leadership of ISIL won’t be having much problem buying anything else that they might need either.
ISIL is getting stronger with each passing day, and they are not going to be satisfied until the Iraqi government has been toppled. It is a geopolitical mess of epic proportions, and there don’t seem to be any easy solutions on the horizon.
It is estimated that the military equipment that ISIL has captured so far could equip an army of 200,000 soldiers. No wonder ISIL is recruiting more fighters so vigorously.
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