All well and good. However, there are thousands of US citizens either employed by the US Government or employed by government contractors or US supported NGO’s that are in Iraq. If the momentum of the implosion of the Malaki regime keeps accelerating the US is faced with either allowing other than a few diplomats thousands of Americans to risk mass murder and worse than just death OR launch a large extraction operation that would be as big as a regular high intensity ‘dynamic entry’ operation.
Simple solution: PULL THEM OUT — NOW!!!
Send in as much drone and manned air cover to “sanitize” the area around the rescue sites to get them out safely.