This has got to stop.
Anyone who can't acknowledge the utter insanity of invading and occupying a post-Ottoman, post-colonial, sectarian kleptocracy, with absolutely no plan of how to proceed after seizing the capital, in a region of artificial borders and eternal blood feuds, should be disqualified from any discussions regarding foreign affairs.
Everything we see occurring in the region today was completely predictable and is a direct result of that wretched and criminal decision.
Unfortunately, we have interests, and allies, and allies' interests in the region.
President Obama has tried diligently to stamp out and/or contain the inevitable wildfires that have ignited and threatened those interests without embroiling our nation in another fatally destructive quagmire.
Failing to recognize where we are in history and how we got here is unbelievably irresponsible and dangerous to our democracy.
Anyone who can't acknowledge the utter insanity of invading and occupying a post-Ottoman, post-colonial, sectarian kleptocracy, with absolutely no plan of how to proceed after seizing the capital, in a region of artificial borders and eternal blood feuds, should be disqualified from any discussions regarding foreign affairs.
Everything we see occurring in the region today was completely predictable and is a direct result of that wretched and criminal decision.
Unfortunately, we have interests, and allies, and allies' interests in the region.
President Obama has tried diligently to stamp out and/or contain the inevitable wildfires that have ignited and threatened those interests without embroiling our nation in another fatally destructive quagmire.
Failing to recognize where we are in history and how we got here is unbelievably irresponsible and dangerous to our democracy.