I say we pull back into the bases and wait it out. It’s time for Iraq to stand or fall.
that is probably the strategy that will happen. the sooner, the better. If we are not going to have 300,000 troops patrolling around knocking out suicide cells, and IED factories, then we need to hole up like Fort Apache. Use specfor and CAS to conduct strikes based on intel. No more patrols. The Iraqis do the patrols. Their land. Their blood. Their civil war. And after enough of the aggressive matyrs have killed each other, then the rational people step up and say enough and hammer back to form a coherent govt. It took a civil war for the U.S. to straighten out.