I thought Saudis fund and not fight. Boom.
“I thought Saudis fund and not fight.”
That could be why they are coming in after the main combat operations against ISIS are complete.
They can manage the reconstruction in the Kurdish areas, provide enough sophisticated equipment (air support, tanks, etc.) to overmatch local threats, and serve as a tripwire deterrent to keep the neighbors like Turkey, Assad and Iran from charging right in.
In the event of a big blowup, we would have to surge back in to support them - but we don’t have spend our billions per year in the meantime.