RESOLVING THE SYRIAN SITUATION (with some perspectives on how best to salvage something from it) After nearly five years of civil conflict during which several hundred thousand have been killed, millions displaced as refugees, and the rise of extremism in
Baghdad
GOING IN HALF-APP… (…when full-bore is the need) We’ve said it many times before…there’s no other place on earth worth one drop of American blood, or, one American soldier’s life…least of all anywhere in the Middle East, and especially in…Iraq.
THE ONLY FAIL-SAFE OPTION LEFT TO SALVAGE SOMETHING (…from a decade of misguided policy) The further rapid disintegration of the Iraqi nation-state leaves the US with very few viable options. Given the way things are evolving on the ground, by
A DISMAL ROI FROM OUR IRAQ VENTURE (…’cause nation-building artistes…we’re not) We stormed into Iraq (and Afghanistan) in the aftermath of 9/11 like an enraged and badly wounded lion, mauling and shredding everything and everyone in site with our military