By Andrew Bolt ~

Barack Obama pulled US forces out of Iraq too early, leaving huge parts of it to fall to what is now the world’s richest terrorist organisation:

After the Islamic State captured Sinjar on Sunday, came the executions… The armed movement, which has surged in wealth, manpower and resources in recent weeks, also just took the town of Wana on Sunday… The Islamic State routed a once-proud Kurdish army and forced an exodus of residents the United Nations said numbered in the hundreds of thousands….

Equally worrisome is what the Islamic State, led by the enigmatic and mysterious Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, will do with the Mosul Dam, which it may soon seize — if it hasn’t already…

What was recently a ragtag cadre of former al-Qaeda operatives has now morphed into a transnational, fully militarized and very rich operation said to control more than one-third of Syria’s…