I have to think it is happening NOW partly BECAUSE it is 0bama’s watch. The whole world knows that he will do nothing but make speeches and draw lines. He might threaten to have a beer summit or something, if he starts to get any pressure from the MSM.
I didn’t want to nation build in Iraq in the first place.
But we did. We spent a huge amount of blood and a lot of treasure in getting that place almost tame, and a simple status of forces agreement with Iraq would have helped preserve some semblance of control for at least another decade. On the downside, it would have required a division equivalent for that same decade to be rotated in and out.
Permanent solutions:
1. Divide it into competing nations.
2. Let it become what it becomes, and smack it if it bothers us
3. Re-invade and get it back to where we had it under control