Some people warned of this "mess"...

[politicman]

46. it always starts like that, doesnt it?

In time, when limited air strikes become an all out air campaign, and then military advisors become thousands of boots on the ground and we have Iraq War III, I want you to come back here and still defend this military intervention.

We all know that history shows that once military intervention starts, the facts on the ground dictate future military policy and things can spiral out of control at a very quick rate.

Take this simple scenario as an example, U.S carries out limited air strikes to protect and help certain factions and minorities on the ground, ISIS then manages to get a suicide bomber near U.S personnel in Iraq and Obama is faced with pressure from war hawks in the U.S that argue that he needs boots on the ground to protect U.S military personnel and installations. Over time things deteriorate even more until you have thousands and thousands of troops back in that country.


Always remember that there are war hawks both in the military and in Congress who will take advantage of any small incident to persistently whisper in Obama's ear that more 'intervention' is needed, these war hawks want nothing more than to have boots back on the ground and they will exploit any situation that they can.