For the first time, The Islamic State launched an attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani from inside Turkey on Saturday, reported a Kurdish official. Turkey is denying the claim although the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s powerful Kurdish Democratic Union Party confirmed the attack.

The Islamic State group “used to attack the town from three sides,” Khalil said. “Today, they are attacking from four sides.”

The assault began when a supposed humanitarian food shipment left Turkey and turned out to be a suicide bomber driving an armored vehicle. The terrorist detonated his explosives on the border crossing between Kobani and Turkey.

“It is now clear that Turkey is openly cooperating with Daesh (ISIS),” said Mustafa Bali, a Kobani-based activist, to the AP via telephone using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State. He further confirmed that ISIS fighters have taken positions in the grain silos on the Turkish side of the border and from there are launching attacks toward the border crossing point.

Kobani has been in danger of falling to the terrorist group for several months, raising questions over whether the United States’ strategy against ISIS is working with only the U.S. led airstrikes to support the Kurds in an effort to protect the Kurdish people.

Kobani or Kobane has been a focal point of the war against ISIS as has Barack Obama’s aerial strategy and insistence on “no boots on the ground” in Kobani. The region has gained significant importance as any possible defeat would give a major boost to worldwide ISIS propaganda. Therefore, a possible seizure of Kobani by ISIS would not only signify a major defeat for the anti-ISIS coalition’s strategy but also contribute to ISIS’s increasing popularity among many radical youth who want to travel to the Middle East to join their cause.

Regional Kurdish freedom fighters have become famous around the world for their tenacity and determination to keep their land free from Islamic State’s savagery which is characterized by rapes, crucifixions, beheadings, and mass murders. The People’s Protection Units (YPG) along with their counterparts the Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ) and the Peshmerga have created a renaissance or revolution of men and women fighting side by side as equals in the Middle East.

This is seen as one of the reasons why ISIS and some Arab states oppose the self-rule of Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan.

The morale of the Freedom fighters stays strong, but there is a need for more than platitudes and speeches by our leaders.

For the freedom fighters to succeed, many feel that Barack Obama must adapt his position on U.S. assistance to ensure a victory rather than simply embelish his political legacy. The Kurds are providing a heroic effort to keep their homeland secure along with US-led coalition airstrikes, but securing a victory over ISIS clearly belongs to the foot soldier. It appears that there are not personal on the ground capable of performing the task with the required certainty.

So either we send in the troops or, alternatively, send in a mercenary force capable of ending ISIS’ reign of terror.

Eric Prince, the former Navy SEAL and founder of Blackwater said “The American People are clearly war fatigued. If the Obama Administration cannot rally the political nerve or funding to send adequate active duty ground forces to answer the call, let the private sector finish the job.”

Prince echoes many U.S. military officers when he says “the President’s current plan seems half-hearted at best. Air power will not be able to go into Syrian towns like Kobani and root them out. The militants increasingly are taking cover among civilians, knowing that the U.S. and its allies will not obliterate buildings where innocent civilians may be mixed in among the jihadists.”

The time to act is now. But a fighting team of United States Military quality soldiers cannot simply be created in a couple of months out of Iraqi soldiers. To suggest such a thing would be an insult to the proud tradition of our American heroes. History has already shown that the training of Iraqi soldiers after the Iraqi war was much less than successful against a weakened enemy.

ISIS is far more challenging and brutal than Al-Qaeda.

The latest idea conceived by Obama is to authorize the training 45,000 light infantry soldiers to fight alongside Kurdish freedom fighters but that program has not even started yet and sounds dubious at best.

Currently the U.S. Military has the 82nd Airborne as the main element of the U.S. Global Response Force, a combined air-ground assault force that for the next eight months will be on high alert. The Unites States Marine Corps at all times maintains a forward deployed quick reaction force, ready for immediate response to any crisis.

General James F. Amos, Commandant of the USMC earlier said:

“I don’t know how events in Iraq and Syria will play out, but I do know that U.S. Marines will be ready to answer the Nation’s call – at a moment’s notice, anywhere around the globe.”