I predict that within a week Iran will move in to fill the vacuum - the very thing we positioned ourselves to prevent with the 'surge' et fol. We had a $bil military base in Iraq that we could be using to counteract Iran... it could be providing us air-access to Afghanistan rather than needing fly-over permission from various.
Ob@ma has helped empower Iran vis-a-vis Turkey - once a primary U.S. ally in the region. He has helped empower Iran in Syria to help prop up Assad's regime. He has jeopardized Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, UAE & ? vis-a-vis Iran.
Christianity in all the Middle East is all but finished except in Israel - a country we are alienating progressively. In fact, if one reads Bible prophecy, one wonders if the antichrist is green with envy with all our Prez is accomplishing in breaking down the balance of power in the Middle East - and the world... and isolating Israel from all the nations.
<sigh>
Bob, you're always very prescient, and it looks like you have a winner again.
From Reuters today, "Iran is so alarmed by insurgent gains in Iraq that it may be willing to cooperate with America in helping Baghdad fight back."
A scarey and treacherous ally indeed.
BoBo, the Dog-Faced Boy could very well fall for Iran's "will-you-walk-into-my-parlor-said-the-spider-to-the-fly" moment. The vacuum IS going to be filled, and it looks like it won't be the U.S. filling it....thanks to the brilliant strategist in the White House. Iran won't let this perfectly good crisis go to waste, that's for sure.
Good post.
Leni