Some people warned of this "mess"...

[politicman]

4. i find it hard to argue with conservatives after Obamas latest moves..

I am as liberal as they come, YET I sometimes find myself asking why Obama with the troops on the ground and the intelligence that boots on the ground provided, didn't see this coming and ignore the Iraqi government when they asked to have American troops leave?

In the end it comes down to 2 scenarios, either the U.S troops stay there and maintain some sort of control (even if they lose sunni towns periodically while putting American soldiers lives at risk) or American troops leave and let the Iraqi's sort out their own problems without any help from the U.S anymore.

Obama said that it was up to the Iraqi's to sort out their own problems, and now he is using military intervention to help them sort out those problems, so the question is valid, why not disregard what the Iraqi government wanted and leave the troops there so that a group like ISIS couldn't over run a weak and unstable Iraqi government?