[norton]

Makes perfect sense;
Obama can sit back and preen for his home base while Singapore, Egypt, Jordan, Kurds, and "our friends" in Saudi Arabia fight the inevitable war with subdued Israeli support and without us.

After all, by the time it's over he will be beyond the presidency and working on his next scam.

[gleeaikin]

And if this strategy is successful, we will have lost no soldiers (including my son who is still in Special Forces), nor run up a $trillion unfunded debt for my grandchildren to pay. Let the Sunnis and Shiites fight their stupid religious supremacy wars. That’s what Catholics and Protestants did 4 and 5 centuries ago, and look how that turned out.