But BO was too anxious to bug out so he could keep a promise with his ultra-left base.
The result was that ISIS was able to waltz in in unarmored Toyota pickup trucks and Iraqi defenders of greater numbers and better armed simply skedaddled.
The Iraqis did not need anyone's help in making a complete mess of all that the U.S. had done for them. And any troops we had left behind would have been frittered away, dying to support a completely corrupt and wothless Iraqi government that their own people won't fight for.