ISIS on the offensive in Iraq

[Viking]

The bigger Drones do most of that stuff. If the Afghans sign any kind of security agreement at all, they'll get some drone coverage I would imagine.

For the time being, at least. Until you vote the next isolationist president into the offices of the white residence.

I'm not sure why you are rating A-29s against the background of fighting ISIS. A-29s are sold to Afghanistan, not Iraq. AFAIK ISIS is not trying to conquer Afghanistan but Iraq.
And the whole invisible jets in the sky thing may work if your GDP is actually higher than the fuel costs of doing that as the almighty Cube already pointed out.

Just saying that if I had to choose between fighter jets and A-29s for counter-insurgency operations, I'd go for the fighter jets.

ISIS is an example from practice for the theory I wrote. This thread also happens to be about Iraq and ISIS.