I don’t like the US fighting Turkey’s battles for it, much as I admire and sympathize with the Kurds. On the other hand, the US is responsible for much of the ISIS armory, thru captured Iraqi weapons (the ineptness of the Iraqi army is a US strategic scandal), as well as intermittent suppression of Assad, the only (God, I hate to say this) source of merely partially-insane order in the region.
Isn’t Hussein busy calling in tomorrow’s tee time?
Obama left Iraq and bragged about it.
Going back in with troops would keep him from pretending that he never makes mistakes. The far-left base would have a fit.
So, forget about it. This is better than another “small footprint, smart power, lose in the end anyway” war.
The world is learning what it’s like without Pax Americana. Let that sink in for a while.
Iraqi people (majority) are simply ungovernable due to many things including ancient (centuries before there was a US) religion based hatreds that now are part of their very DNA ergo un resolvable by any manly force.
Putting our kids back into that mix is beyond insanity. I despise Obama and the democrats! But, keeping our guys out of that septic tank is a position I hope they stick to.
Nukes ok! B52s ok! Glass over the whole country ok! But no more of dead American girls and boys for these scummy, despicable people who pee on the memory of the 5,281 dead American sons and daughters!
Fallujah no more!!