On the surface, the blunder was failing to square the retail deal with a coalition ally, the Trinamul Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee, a notoriously unreliable ally.
If Congress fails to pass a bill, we'll be back to square one in the new year, with the Senate needing to pass a new bill which will then have to be ratified by the House.
In February, the Pentagon sent a report, an assessment to Congress which said that Iraqi forces have assumed ownership of slightly more than 12, 000 square miles, so there's a bit of a difference there.