The locals aren't focused on the task before them

Yesterday I posted about how Syrian anti-Assad forces are now pretty much all of the jihadist variety.

So how are things going in the Iraqi portion of the ISIS caliphate?

Iraq’s prime minister said Sunday that an investigation of the military forces revealed 50,000 “ghost soldiers” on the country’s payroll.

Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s office issued a statement about the massive graft that came with a notification from Parliament saying the payments to the fictitious troops had been cut off, Agence France-Presse reported.

Kinda challenging to fight a jihadist head-chopper army 200,000 strong with phantom soldiers.

But maybe a few hundred post-American advisors and airstrikes can do the job.