I don’t trust Obama on any level. Not what he says, not what he does, not his motives, nothing. So I’m queasy about any military operation he orders.
But I will say that a good model for operating in the muslim world is the model that brought down the Taliban, where you use special operators integrated among muslim allies, backed up by air power.
Its a small footprint leveraging a lot of power. It keeps the nationals themselves front and center and in need of you. It solves a lot of problems in dealing with the populace and the local politics. What do you do with the prisoners? Not your problem.
I agree. We need the Syrians and Iraqi’s on the ground and we bomb - massive bombing.