The phrases I'm sick to death of hearing over the last 2 weeks, (regarding Obama's course of action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria) are:
1) "boots on the ground", the annoying term for whether Obama will limit U.S. military involvement to air-strikes, or will take the necessary step of sending in ground troops to complete the mission. Because no other potential ally in the region, such as Syrian resistance fighers or the Kurds, or Iraq, or Jordan, have the ground troops needed to do the job right.
2) "it's like three-dimensional chess", another annoying term for the complexity of the situation in Iraq/Syria, with no easy solutions.
