The Obama administration admitted that they are sending another 450 US troops to Iraq, to do some training. They were going to set up a new training base near Ramadi.
If we wanted, they could recruit and train a good Sunni Iraqi army, under US control in a couple of months. Just offer enlistment, with steady pay in US dollars, decent US rations, and a good uniform, possibly even a flak jacket. Give 'em a couple of months of basic training, have the Americans run the promotion boards to fill out the squad and platoon NCO positions with good men, and I think we could have a 10,000 man army in Iraq that would fight, and we could keep 'em fighting against ISIS rather than joining political coups in Baghdad.
We did something like this in Laos, 50 years ago, and it worked.
Of course Obama would never approve.
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