“A mission to save a few thousand people and prevent ISIS from overrunning northern Iraq seems to have metastasized into something more like a war. What is going on here? What changed?”
Obama spent 2 days off his vacation and returned to Washington DC. I’m sure interesting meetings and secret video conferencing with our European friends
It's called "escalation." LBJ invented it.
Then, after a few years, they blamed the VietNam War on Nixon.