President Obama Authorizes ISIS Airstrikes On Convoys Advancing On Irbil, Iraq Kurd Haven For U.S. Military And Consular Personnel, Confirms Humanitarian Airdrop For 40,000 Mountain Besieged Religious Refugees Okaying Airstrikes On ISIS To Break Siege, Pledges No New U.S. "Boots On Ground" But Airstrikes Continue As Needed To Protect U.S. Persons In Baghdad Or Throughout Iraq

       Thursday, 7 August 2014, McALLEN, TEXAS - Broadcast world news reports have been dominated in recent weeks by the outbreak of sustained violence on the Gaza Strip and tunnel and rocket attacks threatening Israel  with a shaky 72-hour cease-fire just ended, severely increased intensity of battle conflicts at eastern Ukraine's border with Russia where today another Ukrainian warplane reportedly was shot down by a Russian-made BUK missile such as allegedly shot down a Malaysian Airlines passenger jet and where the leader of Eastern Ukrainian separatist forces today announced his resignation, as well as what has been described as the worst Ebola outbreak in recorded world history with perhaps the first known Ebola cases ever possibly now incubating in the United States, while many newswatchers have been left wondering about developments in the dire Iraq situation across the northern section of which a wide swath of terror that has been cut by the terrorist group ISIS (also ISIL) reportedly so senselessly vicious and apparently genocidal as a matter of policy that even Al Qaeda has severed ties with the group believing that their actions elsewhere such as Syria have "given Islamic world jihad a bad name".
       After this seeming dearth of in-depth Iraq coverage President Obama today was shown meeting in the White House Situation Room with senior advisers on the Iraq ISIS crisis concluding this evening with President Obama's public briefing on the status of the most recent U.S. actions and announcement of the most recent U.S. positions on various strategic and tactical matters in Iraq as detailed in the headline above. The components of the President's U.S. Iraq comments basically at this time include threats of airstrikes as well as the provision of humanitarian aid. The U.S. also presumably is considering plans to consult with Congress including on supplying Kurds fighting on the ground against ISIS without new "U.S. boots on the ground".
       One "real concern" that has been repeated by several military and security officials is that firstly the rapid movement of ISIS terrorists into large areas of Iraq adds a dynamic to the Mideast scene which is bound only to increase the training capability and global potential of all terrorists roughly in an axis of different terrorist groups down to Yemen.  Secondly a number of officials and experts have repeated the further "real concern" of ISIS in particular responding to the U.S. use of force against it with retaliatory attacks which may conceivably include attacks on U.S. soil. Many have noted that there are as many as 1,000 persons holding European passports that could get them into the U.S. who are fighting with or have fought with ISIS in the past. Of those who do not hold passports some ISIS terrorists are rumored possibly to have planned to cross the U.S. border from the south in Mexico into the U.S. Homeland.

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