Indeed. His points are well taken that ISIS is to some extent a result of past US policy.
That’s all fine, but it doesn’t provide any guidance on how to deal with the situation as it now exists. It’s as if after Pearl Harbor someone insisted on going back and rehashing all the mistakes the US had made dealing with Japan, which were numerous, and therefore we shouldn’t fight them now.
His notion that Assad has never threatened the US is just stupid. Syria has for decades been a major supporter of terrorism of many varieties. The Assads were allied at various times with both Saddam and Iran.
A foreign theocratic government, as such, is no more repugnant to US values than any other authoritarian or totalitarian system. Although, admittedly, all the theocratic governments around at the moment are all pretty bad.
Good points.
This is one of the most incoherent pieces I’ve read in a while. He blames the Syrian uprising to neocons? I guess Obama is a neocon now. And he then praises Obama for not even having a strategy as though it’s none of our business?