Three days ago a White House spokesman said in effect the Jordan may need Israel to bail them out. I’m sure the Muslim population of Jordan (95% Sunni) living under a monarchy loved hearing that.
Obama is destabilizing Jordan, as much as he dares.
Jordan’s big concern is internal Jihad from the tribes about 2 hours south of Amman near Petra, in the village of Ma’an. The young guys there have been flying ISIS flags for quite awhile. I doubt a ISIS military operation would gain much ground. The desert from the Iraq border to any developed region of Jordan is a rock strewn region. From Syria to Amman is another story as the drive is around 45 minutes. We have around 12,000 troops in Jordan at a few bases. We have had operation of patriot systems for 2 years near the Syrian border as well as or folks in the underground operations bunker we built for them a couple years ago. Jordan needs to worry about internal suicide bombers and isolated folks shooting up shopping malls.