Almost three years ago, in June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and his band of bearded jihadist followers shocked the world by capturing Iraq’s second largest city in a matter of days. Pictures flooded the international airwaves showing a humiliated, desperate, tired and demoralized Iraqi army stripping off their uniforms, leaving their weapons behind and fleeing for their lives, never to look back. Some were lucky enough to get out of the area unscathed. Many were captured and executed on the spot. Indeed, in one of the most heinous crimes against humanity that the world has seen this century, hundreds of Air Force cadets were rounded up by Islamic State fighters plowing the area as they attempted to flee Camp Speicher, a military base on the outskirts of Tikrit. The Sunnis were...
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