“I would be willing to bet the US military is going back to into Iraq a third time.”
Obama had about 6,000 US troops in Iraq when he left office - he is the one who went back in the third time, after his disastrous withdrawal (throwing those Iraqis who had sided with us to the wolves). Obama had troops back in Iraq for years already - just not accomplishing much visibly.
The Iraqi Army was reconstituted with US help after ISIS overran much of the country, and we have been providing air support to their operations to take back areas from ISIS (Tikrit, Fallujah, now Mosul).
Things really picked up against ISIS a year ago, when GEN Joe Votel took over command of Central Command (CENTCOM). Things have picked up even more since Trump came to office.
The ISIS Caliphate is being crushed - it will be only a guerilla movement or a terrorist organization next year - no more territory, no more oil revenue, no more taxes.
We need to plan on being in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya, Syria till the end of time.
They don't understand that freedom comes with personal responsibility
Sadly many Americans are the same.