“What’s this, the third time “we” have taken this town?”
First when we conquered Iraq in 2003.
Then a two-step in 2004, where the Marines encountered a widespread insurrection and pulled back, to organize and conduct a deliberate door-to-door clearing operation (that was the big one.
This time, we are just flying over, dropping bombs, while Iraqis do all the dying. After it is over, the US will likely have little influence over what happens there, Iran is likely to have more - but ISIS is really getting its butt handed to them.
I tacitly approve unloading the ordnance but a Greater Persia instead of a Greater Caliphate is about the same amount of suck.