Reflecting on the anti-ISIS campaign, Ben Connable, a political scientist at the RAND think tank, who served in Iraq for three tours as a Marine Corps officer said, "I have never been more optimistic about Iraq than I am today. They finally feel like they own their security."
The battle against ISIS in Iraq is over. The next challenge for the Iraqi government is to win the peace. To do that, it must now ensure that Iraq's Sunni minority feels that they have some real stake in Iraqi politics so that they don't actively or passively support groups like ISIS that claim -- no matter how self-servingly -- to stand up for the rights of the Sunni.
This was taken from the following article today.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/15/opinions/it-wasnt-trump-but-this-generals-elite-soldiers-who-defeated-isis-bergen/index.html