Few people expect ISIS to take over all of Iraq. I expect the Kurds will repel them. I expect the Shiite area will either repel them or at least hold onto the heavily populated areas. But ISIS has taken over about 1/5 of Iraq already. You’re comparing that to flying a jetliner into the Pentagon? How about if the 9/11 hijackers had taken over CA, OR, and WA? That would be more analogous.
And maybe you haven’t been paying attention to the news but it’s been a lot more than a week. This all started back in Dec 2013.
And I’m not on any bandwagon. I’m calling it as I see it.
Now, I expect Obama knew as well as most of us did that Iraq was not “stable”. Politically, he had to say they were. But if politics comes back and bites him, well that’s how the game is played. Don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.