Without a deliberate, dedicated and enduring policy that deals directly with eliminating (a multi-generational process) the sectarian problem (and it is a massive problem) and that transcends political ideologies and passing impulses of bureaucratic ideologues, failure is an enduring guarantee. N. Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos are just a few examples.
Although President Obama is not the first president to find himself assuming an active combat scenario his failure-risk is so severe primarily due to his primitively placing the ignorance of ideology before evaluating, understanding and fully addressing asymmetrical risk. Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State, owns this failure right along with the President.
It’s quite noble of the President to want to pull the U.S. out of global conflict unfortunately the facts and circumstance that are the inertial consequence of reality will not suspend their influences simply due to his politically-driven impulses. All of this is quite pathologically hypocritical considering what the Administration is currently orchestrating as part of its “Asia Pivot” policy.
Curtis C. Greco, Founder
