In my view, the strategy today will be the same tomorrow.
It just needs more time to come to fruition. There really is not a lot of choices available other than stay the course or withdraw.
I had agreed with that, and then backed off in favor of taking IRan and Syria out of the equation...change the situation plan.
Last week some reported that the Iranians & Syrians were NOT the issue in IRaq, that it was instead the home-grown insurgents who were sustaining the fight.
Given that, the best alternative they suggested was to surge in additional forces and uptempo the cordon, clear, control (3C's)strategy using US forces replaced by Iraqis. (What we have been doing in a piecemeal way up to now given the low number, low training, and corruption of Iraqi forces.)
O'Reilly visited Iraq and returned to say the whole thing actually IS sustained by Iran.
My guess is that we're going to have to do both, 3C + Neutralization of Iran.
That can be implemented quickly and executed if there were the will to do it, but my guess is that it'll get talked into oblivion.
Victor David Hanson is floating trial balloons for a limited war with Iran, mostly Arabian Gulf. Could be the start of something big.