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Planning and practicing for a swift, violent and deadly attack is SOP. American forces train for that literally everyday. While ISIS was in the open, we could have used our satellites to find them, our air supremacy to fix them and the Iraqi Army to envelope and destroy them. It would have been one of the most basic operations there is.
The Iraqi army was useless.
Anyhow, since when did the US command the military of other countries? Since when did defending another country which we have no mutual protection pack with become the responsibility of the US?
ISIS is certainly evil, but so are basically all of those people. None of them are truly our friends. I have no issue with them killing each other off. That's their problem.
I do however feel that it is in our best interest to ensure that ISIS, or any other radical group, doesn't spread to the US. I don't think it is likely that it will, but it makes sense to me for us to provide minimal (just enough) support to contain ISIS.
Assuming that ISIS did have a force of 30,000, and assuming that the recent estimate that we (the coalition) has killed around 6,000 ISIS fighters during the past few months, then that's 20% of ISIS that is decimated, without a single loss of American fighters. The action that we have taken seems to me to have been pretty darned successful.