fuagf -- "convoys", eh? -- we might not relatively easily/neatly be able to cut down their fighters en masse -- but we certainly could readily relieve them of a buncha their (captured) equipment, re-balance things a bit on that level (which [captured] equipment has been reported, including this past evening ['the Kurds, the Peshmerga, are regarded as the better fighters, but they don't have the punch that ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State have'], as having been at least very significant if not just flatly decisive in the Kurds' decisions thus far to fall back toward Erbil/Irbil rather than to stand and engage, which in turn have directly led to the present folks on the mountain situation)