It is clear that Obama wants Iraq to fail, after all, it’s Bush’s war.
After announcing that there would be “no boots on the ground”, Obama reversed course the next day. I imagine the conversation went like this:
“Mr. President, we have some people there at our embassy that need protecting, if they are overrun and killed, this will reflect badly on you”.
Obama-”Well, if you are saying we need a few boots on the ground to accomplish this, then ok, but I want the minimum to protect these people, not enough of a force to actually repel the Islamists. How many would that be?”
“Dude, I would say around....4 to 5 hundred?”
Obama-”Then send in 300-no, make it 275, more precise, sounds like we know what we’re doing.”
Exactly.