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"Dead Broke" Hillary's successor at the State Department, John Kerry claimed Team Obama will give a very thorough vetting of every option that is available. Minus, of course, "boots on the ground."
The friend who brought the "leverage" article to our attention had this to say:
This article covers a thought that crossed my mind last week -- Obama is not worried about Iraq. Iran will save them, and then we'll all be friends against the Nazis, er, Jihadis.
So, he managed to turn Syria's Assad (he who previously "must go") into our working partner by being outmaneuvered by Putin. Now, he's worked himself into a corner where we need to rely on Iran to "save" Iraq.
This is moving from amateur hour to something far worse than I'd have thought possible.
Our Dear Leader did say he'd talk to any of our enemies without preconditions.
To which Comrade Karla replied:
This is so FUBAR I don’t even know what to say anymore...And numbnuts plays golf while plotting how to destroy our economy and figures maybe Iraq will just “go away” now.
I'm sure the Ministry of Truth (formerly known as the "mainstream media") will help make it go away--by simply not reporting it, no matter how many mass killings take place.
Or if it is reported by the Non-FOX News media: "Journalists" will blame Bush for getting us involved in the first place. (I've been hearing a lot of that in my daily outings).
I think we're well past the should we/should we not have gone into Iraq, and focus on "what are we going to do about it now?"
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What are we going to do about it now? How about mind our own business and let Iran clean up the mess. Every thing we do in the Middle East cascades into bigger and bigger problems. Every thing we have done in the world since 1898 has cascaded into bigger and bigger problems. It is well past time we brought all of our troops home. Used them solely to guard our own borders and minded our own damn business.
ReplyDeleteI'd rather keep Iran as contained and isolated as possible. Nothing good can come with dealing with them, or giving them increased dominance over the middle east.
ReplyDeleteAs far you comment about: "Everything we have done in the world since 1898 has cascaded into bigger and bigger problems." There are folks in Western Europe, who just celebrated the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion that would disagree with you. Also folks that lived under the "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" (territory conquered by Imperial Japan) would also contest the "everything we've done..." comment.
The idea of bringing our troops home to defend our borders is a wonderful sentiment. The problem is our national interests; along with the political, economic and military support we provide our allies, extend beyond our borders.
True some of these "allies" I'd love to cut off right now as I write this, but a one-size fits-all isolationist policy isn't the answer either. We tried that before both world wars.
There is no pat & easy answer to foreign policy dilemmas and crises. We need to pick and chose our fights (economic, political and if necessary military ones). And pick only those fights we can win.
This is something that has to be examined on a case-by-case basis and based on our national interest, maybe even the interest of a staunch ally (like the UK, Canada, Australia, etc).