MESOP TODAY’S QUOTATION : RETAKING MOSUL AT ANY PRICE ?
” 29 Jan 2015: Said another Kurdish military leader in Irbil, speaking only anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject: “We have had more than 800 martyrs since June among the peshmerga. We can look at their families and say, ‘Your son died to protect Kurdistan.’ Retaking Mosul will cost thousands of lives, for a Sunni city that we don’t want and it doesn’t seem like Baghdad wants. So what do we tell the families then?” Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2015/01/28/254680/beyond-front-lines-in-iraq-a-forgotten.html#storylink=cpy