Will’s Take: If Ground Troops Are Necessary to Defeat ISIS, They Won’t Be American

On Monday’s Special Report, George Will reacted to a montage of clips showing President Obama taking credit for ending the war in Iraq and later moving to rhetorically distance himself from the decision to end the war. In regards to the president’s intial claim that he ended the war in Iraq, Will said, Obama ended American participation in it. Will noted that the quickest way to end a war is to lose it. “It all is going to come back to whether or not ISIS can be driven off the land, the quarter of Iraq that they currently occupy, and the chances are not good,” Will said. He continued to explain that the Islamic State may be defeated by troops willing to kill in close, but added that those troops will not be American and questioned whether any other nation would step up.