U-S Senator Mark Kirk says he supports air strikes in Iraq but says they’re not enough. The Illinois Republican spoke on the issue at an unrelated Chicago event this morning.
Kirk says he’s concerned that the Islamic militant group ISIS could emerge much stronger from the ongoing conflict.
“Especially if it takes control of Iraq’s oil wealth and starts selling oil and getting that roughly 18 billion dollars a year in revenue. That would make it the best-funded terrorist group on earth.”
President Barack Obama launched the air strikes last week in support of Kurdish and Iraqi forces battling ISIS in northern Iraq. Kirk says the United States has a duty to protect the Kurds from what some are calling genocide.
The senator wouldn’t say whether he would support more American military involvement, but said he didn’t think the president would be willing to send troops.