Perhaps what they need most is for the politics to get out of the way. There are bigger political forces at work preventing the fight from reaching ISIS. For ex

Perhaps what they need most is for the politics to get out of the way. There are bigger political forces at work preventing the fight from reaching ISIS. For example, American forces have ordered pesh merga to pull American citizen volunteers from the fight. When there are so many different forces at work, each with its own opinion on how things should be run, it forms this kind of stalemate that needs to come down before progress can be made. For example, Sunni militias in Tikrit stopped fighting because Western air strike command was not cooperating with those forces on the ground. This kind of thing. Also, from my understanding, what I've heard from people that are there is that small arms and especially antiarmor weapons are what is needed (some volunteer fighters are having to trade cash for weapons). ISIS has a hell of a lot of American equipment via IA (Iraqi Army) forces. IA is fighting, but they have had to withdraw from some areas against the quick offense of ISIS, which has resulted in powerful equipment captured. The Jordanian pilot they recently murdered was shot down with a MANPADS from a stockpile they captured some months before. ISIS has M1 Abrams. As an (American) infantry veteran, this is the fact that concerns me the most: There are not a lot of things that can kill an Abrams. We are going to need a lot more air support, and it's going to take a committed ground force to stop their advance, let alone push them into retreat and defeat. Probably what they need most is a committed ground force. We need another Iraq War, with hundreds of thousands or millions of people on the ground, fighting ISIS in the streets. Unfortunately, Dubya already blew through the Iraq War we need. I saw earlier today that 57% of Americans support ground forces in Iraq to fight ISIS. 1) ISIS almost certainly wouldn't exist if Saddam was still around (i.e. it's our fault). 2) So many people are so tired of war, that even in the face of this pure fucking evil, it will be hard to convince the public to start another one. That being said, if we don't destroy ISIS, it will be a defining force of evil in the 21st century. They will not stop in Syria or Iraq. They will move into and attack Europe and the Americas. It is a global problem that needs to be destroyed.