***And he appeared unmoved by international concerns that a power vacuum will favor an ISIS resurgence and a Kurdish slaughter.***
Uhn, huh...
Nothing stopping you crom exercising your morality and sending your young men to die in aid to your moral imperative, which is always contrived anyway and more than a bit uttered with equivocation and qualification
Because you just have to have it both ways.
You have been driving down the middle of the road for over a century and there is eventually going to be a pretty serious and deadly wreck...
Yep, no more of these endless police actions. If there has to be military force applied, use it with extreme prejudice. ie. bring real war.