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Now welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Phypsidae from the young

Turks, D-code DC, redacted tonight with Lee Camp, Counter-Spin, Lacho, Truth Day Radio,

Activism from Best of the Left and The Rachel Maddo Show.

So News report out from Reuters about ISIS and the consequences of bombing them.

Now I love this article, the reason I love it is not because of the devastation you're

about to find out, but because finally somebody say, hey wait a minute now, maybe bombing

them does have consequences.

We showed you over the last couple days, Republicans like McCain and Bill Crystal and

Peggy Newton coming out and saying, what just bomb them?

Boom, boom, boom, boom, what difference does it make me just kill them?

It's too easy.

Well Reuters investigated what difference it makes by going on the ground and talking

to the local Shia, the local Kurds there.

So let me start with a small piece of good news.

First, they explained that the unlikely coalition of Kurdish-Peshmarga fighters, Shiite militias,

and the U.S. Air Force won a major victory when it broke a siege of the Shiite Turkmen

town of Amherlie last week and drove Islamic State from 25 nearby Sunni towns and villages.

In fact they go on and explain later in the report that along with the Kurds we've driven

them out of 127 villages overall and Amherlie is a very important town, so a big town and

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