Give it time. That is how Vietnam started after the French left. Johnson sent just a few advisers and that was no big deal because we were told they would not be fighting.
If this anything like Vietnam, we will have 60,000 troops in Iraq in the next few years. But that will probably be ok because there will be a coalition of 60 nations participating with the US providing 59,000 troops and the 59 other nations 1000 troops.
In the coming weeks we are going to hear that Baghdad has been attacked. Americans then will die. Then what? This guy has boxed himself into a corner. He’ll have to send more troops in. This is a bad bad bad situation ready to get worse.