what a surprise - thousands of iraqi soldiers fled mosul, when only a few hundred ISIL fighters approached the town/city.
USA spent $500m training syrians to fight assaad - and it seems that there are only 5 guys still fighting the good fight for the USA (that was from testimony from some US guy, at some hearing).
in the news reports, there was a story about some syrian men, escaping to europe, because they did not want to be conscripted .. sorry - conscription is conscription - ok, they could have been conscripted and fought on the side of the government, or gone and joined one of the other mobs.
seriously, there is too much nonsense about the refugees - where most are males. all the males (even if they are pretend syrian refugees) should have to join special army units, get some training, then be parachuted back into syria/iraq and fight for the freedom of those countries.
watso is confident, that in ww2, frenchmen who dashed accross to the english channel, did no go there to live on welfare (probably no welfare anyway) - but signed up to fight the germans - oh, yes, charles de gaulle, was the leader of the froggies (in exile), who fought the germans
