OK, I don't really have a source reporting back from Paradise, but here on earth, where the unspectacular if sound policy (finally) of strangling ISIS's cash flow has begun to bear fruit, salaries for the Mujahadeen have been halved, prisoners are being offered bargain rates for release ($500 gets your ass outta jail) and folks are getting utility bills.

An army travels on its stomach, as Napoleon used to say.

Coincidentally, no less diverse a collection of observers than Peter Van Buren, Donald Trump, and me have mused over the seeming strategic blind spot that has permitted cash to flow in to ISIS as oil  flows out.

The consensus explanation, ( leaving aside Trump's simplistic characterization that our C-in-C is a wimp) of the prior reluctance/inability to cut off the money flow turns on the persistence of established smuggling channels that conveyed oil out of Iraq as long ago as the 1990s when it was the evasion of anti-Saddam sanctions that motivated oil selling Sunnis and the chance to profit from bargain black market oil prices motivating Turkish and ( occasionally) Israeli buyers.

Which brings us circuitously, to the question of what it will finally take to demand sincerity from the Turks , our ostensible NATO ally.

That said, sufficient it is unto the day that we get what help we can on the demand side, while we finally interdict some of the supply.

We will still not bomb the wellheads ( there's lots of Western oil company money invested in them...) But its good to know that ISIS is feeling the cash flow pinch.