I don't know how we can ever get out of the Middle East unless we let some other country take over the policing of the world. But why should we by the world's cop? I don't think what President Obama is proposing is going to help matters much. Arm "moderate" Syrian rebels? We're going to start a three-way war between Assad and two factions fighting both him and each other? And you're telling me that, after all the military aid we've given Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, there's no effective regional force that can put "boots on the ground" in Iraq and Syria to fight the de facto country that ISIS has become?
The Islamic State War, as I see it (and call it), is not our fight. We should capture or kill the terrorists who beheaded James Foley and Stephen Sotloff , but as far as getting further involved - even with air strikes - I don't see how it's going to advance the cause of stability in Syria and unity in Iraq. Democracy? Yeah, that's a laugh. We were never going to make the Middle East a land of democratic societies.
Why try to establish democracy in other countries when we can't even do it at home?
No, this is not our fight. ISIS doesn't threaten the home front, and we shouldn't do anything to encourage it to do so.
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