Much like in Gulf War I, when we were looking for WMDs that we sold to Iraq during their war with Iran; in Gulf War III, we’re destroying weapons we gave to Iraq after Mission Accomplished in Gulf War II.
It’s just the circle of life — if you’re a defense contractor. After all, someone is going to have to sell the new Syrian/Iraq ISIS caliphate the replacements for the weapons being destroyed now. Those F-35s don’t move themselves. Actually they don’t move at all and I’m sure we’ll be looking for suckers^Wclients to offload them on.