[LS]

Regardless, it won’t be the last time we are there. When you don’t win a war, you just go back and fight it all over again. Next time, we won’t have a base within a few hundred miles of Tehran, either.

[Alberta's Child]

By the time George W. Bush left office, the U.S. military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq had already lasted longer than our involvement in both World Wars combined. The United States of America isn't going to be waging another major military campaign over in the Middle East until there are enough voters in this country who are dumb enough to believe that their government is actually serious about fighting a war over there.

That could be decades from now. But maybe it will never happen ... because as I sit here in August of 2015 and look back over the last couple of decades, I think a strong case can be made that U.S. policy in the Middle East has been orchestrated by foreign agents in high places in the last two administrations.