In a long article on Iraq in the New York Times, two "experts" were interviewed: guess who they are?

"“In the long run, I’m not sure it would have made a difference with the forces pushing for the disintegration of Iraq,” said Gen. Amos Yadlin, a retired head of Israeli military intelligence who is now the executive director of Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies.

Andrew J. Tabler, an expert on Syria at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that American airstrikes would “help them deal with the symptoms of the disease, but the disease is rooted in Syria.”"