Just a short observations — major kudos are due to Obama on calling the world out on its passivity on Syria. Conflict fatigue is understandable, but the willingness of wealthy, comfortable westerners to ignore atrocities because they feel a little economically depressed and tired of fighting is inexcusable. I reflect back to the 90s and […]
Syria
Syria – Bad Analogies Lead to Bad Decisions
Syria is not Iraq or Afghanistan. Detractors of a strike on Syria (on both the left and the right) draw illusions to recent military interventions and try to convince us that those pasts will inevitably repeat themselves. That is foolish. The use of US military force has, in the past, been an effective, targeted tool […]