[redgolum]

We did this.

Unfortunately, we have no one in the State department who understands history or strategy, and haven’t since WWII.

[Uncle Miltie]

Yeah, blame America first.

[Uncle Miltie]

My apologies. Given your reference to WWII, I was supposing you were blaming us for the geographic and demographic State of Iraq, a fiction created by the Brits and French to keep the Sunnis, Shia and Kurds at each others’ throats in favor of the colonialist power.

[riverdawg]

“Unfortunately, we have no one in the State department who understands history or strategy, and haven’t since WWII.”

George Schultz was a good SecState during the Reagan administration. At 93, he still writes sensibly about the economy and foreign policy:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/george-p-shultz-how-to-get-america-moving-again-1407536979