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A Few Hundred ISIS Fighters Capture Ramadi

May 22, 2015 By Richard C. Young

What are America’s choices in Iraq now?

Pat Buchanan lays out three choices and, as Pat writes, none are good: (1) Reintroduce 10,000 ground troops, (2) Adopt a policy of degrade and contain, (3) Accept the inevitable that Iraq “is going to be in the orbit of Iran.”

One: Reintroduce 10,000 ground troops and Marines to retake Ramadi and Anbar, and thousands more to retake Mosul and cleanse Iraq of ISIS. Another surge, like 2007.

Yet that does not solve the problem of the Islamic State, which would retreat to Syria and wait for the Americans to leave Iraq again.

Two: Adopt a policy of degrade-and-contain by continuing air strikes on the Islamic State in Iraq, while training and backing the Iraqi army and Kurds in keeping ISIS out of Baghdad and Irbil.

Three: Accept the inevitable — that the Shiite-led Iraq we created by dethroning Saddam and smashing his Baathist state and army is going to be in the orbit of Iran. For we cannot now, without a major and indefinite reintroduction of U.S. forces, alter the existing balance of military and political power in Iraq.

Before the United States replicates the epochal blunder Bush II and the neocons committed, we should look hard at the realities of Iraq and the region, as we failed to do before we invaded.

See more here on how the crisis is pushing rivals Turkey and Saudi Arabia closer together.

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