Contacts tell me that the bulk of the SF forces sent to Iraq have been Reservists and National Guard SF. That doesn’t include the Marines. It may be that there are few diplomates remaining now.
The air strikes are occurring up north, near Irbil (aka Arbil, Erbil, etc.) not south, around our embassy. Our folks in Irbil are rather ‘resourceful’ and don’t require State Dept. or even WH support.
IMO the WH and Dems are out of the loop on the IS bombings. They’re just chiming in to take some sort of ‘prevent genocide’ credit. I think the reality is more like “this is what we’re going to do ...how you deal with it is up to you”.