Iraq crisis: West’s ‘mandate’
limited by national borders –
and don’t dare mention oilFisk loves Assad.
"If the road to Irbil is closed, then they’ll take the road to Aleppo or Damascus which the Americans and British will be less willing to bomb or defend – because that would mean helping the regime of Bashar al-Assad of Syria, whom we must hate almost as much as we hate the Islamic State."