why do we need 25,000 external soldiers to be sent in there? Syria and Iraq are sovereign countries - like it or not. They have their own soldiers - there - on the ground. We do need intelligence on the ground to direct our missiles but that’s about it besides some damn expensive missiles.
Let the coolies on the ground do the dirty work and get them to finance these cruise missiles with their oil money while they are at it.
The trouble is that the coolies on the ground are incompetent.
Iraq apparently has the officers to put together maybe a single brigade of reasonably effective Shiite troops. These seem to be occupied on the Tikrit front. The rest are only good enough to be massacred as we saw recently near Fallujah.