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Promise of 450 advisers to Iraq is a reasonable response to Mideast chaos U.S. helped create

Under the circumstances, President Obama’s decision to send 450 more advisers to Iraq makes enough sense to go ahead with it, but it won’t help if Iraqis don’t make a commitment to join the fight. And to people who remember Vietnam, the idea of sending “advisers” carries unwelcome connotations. Nevertheless, we are paying the price […]

The Buffalo News writes:

Under the circumstances, President Obama’s decision to send 450 more advisers to Iraq makes enough sense to go ahead with it, but it won’t help if Iraqis don’t make a commitment to join the fight. And to people who remember Vietnam, the idea of sending “advisers” carries unwelcome connotations.

Nevertheless, we are paying the price that former Secretary of State Colin Powell warned about before we invaded Iraq: “If you break it, you own it.” The threat posed by the savages in ISIS – the reason Obama is sending the advisers – exists in large part because the U.S. invasion of Iraq has created a decade of chaos in the Middle East.