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In late 2014 amidst ISIS astounded the world with their lightning advances through syria and Iraq.
In the northeast they had even set up provisions around Erbil and were beginning to shell the city.
Obama was compelled to intervene amidst the genocide of the Yazidi. What if for some reason he had not and ISIS had taken Erbil and either destroyed or forced the Kurdish government to flee?
And say they take Samarra for good measure in the south?
Was this possible for ISIS to achieve?
How much farther could ISIS have reached and would it have been plausible for the US to have stood aside?