America’s New War in the Middle East

[gordo]

Great insight, thanks so much for all of the hard work!

[Larkinchance]

For the sake of understanding, why not ask a Muslim what ISIS's objectives are instead of filtering it through government interpretation?

[philipgray]

we really need to get our governments to stop wasting our taxes on war
every 4 seconds a child dies from malnutrition our money should be used
to help those whom really deserve our money our attention and our love

[rdenunzio]

The two levers in achieving regional and world order involve calibrating legitimacy and power. Dr. Kissinger's book, World Order is a must read to understand why the U.S. And other coalition partners must play a balancing role in the current Mideast ISIL quest. History has provided many lessons when there is no sovereign playing a balancing role. The Treaty of Versailles ending WWI is an example of how the absence of balance ca
N be catastrophic.

[s.kayskelly]

I think we should put a big fence around Iraq and let God sort them out.  I'm tired of losing our sons and daughters in that hell hole.  And we thought VietNam was bad . . .