Stephen Zunes is a Middle East expert at the University of San Francisco. Stephen Zunes是旧金山大学的中东问题专家. ________________________________ Another option for the U.S. is to provide more training, weapons and intelligence to the Iraqi army. Andreas Krieg is with King's College London. 美国另外一种选择是为伊拉克军队提供训练,武器和情报.Andreas Krieg就职于伦敦大学的国王学院. "The Iraqi military has, despite all the billions we invested in security sector reform, not really performed in the way we want it to perform. But the Iraqis will obviously be the first line of defense against [ISIL], so they will need to be propped up in one way or another." "虽然我们投入了数十亿美元用于伊拉克安全领域改革,伊拉克军队也未曾达到我们所预料的那样.但是伊拉克人对抗ISIL的第一道防线是明显的,所以他们必须以某种方式获得支持."