Why The Slow U.S. Military Response To The Crisis In Iraq?

Pentagon Sending A Message To Iraq By Dragging Its Boots -- Mark Thompson, Time

Slow-motion U.S. reaction is designed to push Baghdad to compromise

During the first lull—1991 to 2003—in the now-23-year-old Iraq war, U.S. war planes would routinely destroy missile sites operated by Saddam Hussein’s forces if American pilots deemed them threatening.

Now that the U.S. is amid a second lull, since pulling its forces out in 2011, it has adapted a different strategy. While it’s flying 30 or more manned and unmanned airplanes daily over Iraq to chart the progress of the rebels belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, as they bulldoze across western Iraq and threaten Baghdad, the U.S. has numbed its trigger finger.

“No truth to rumors in media today that US drones struck [ISIS] targets in Iraq,” Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon’s top spokesman, tweeted to his 27,000 followers mid-day Tuesday.

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My Comment: It is not the Pentagon that is acting slow .... it is the White House telling the Pentagon to go slow. The reason for this "foot-dragging" is obvious .... there is no political or public will in the U.S. to have US forces going back into Iraq. If anything .... the U.S. is hoping that the situation will stabilize and that the momentum will shift back to the Iraqi government in their war against Sunni militants ... thereby making U.S. involvement moot.