Anyone with the brain of a plant can see the US heading right into these traps and quagmires. Read Barbara Tuchman’s March of Folly and it will become clear that only a stunning jolt might force a reversal of course. That “jolt”, hopefully, will come from a popular and unavoidable demand for peace rather than another military fiasco.
Obama, if he truly aspires to audacity, now is the time to point out that this is the disastrous and predictable future that will result from the policies proposed by those who claim to have superior “experience” and “expertise” in foreign policy. For precedent, he could stand in Springfield, Illinois, and remind the nation that it was another political novice from Illinois, young Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the Mexican-American war and went on to become quite a commander-in-chief.
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