As Senator Graham rightly points out, the absolute dissolution of Iraq is “another 9/11 in the making.” If Obama wants that kind of blood on his hands, he’ll do nothing. But judging by the remarks he’s made in the past several days, I don’t believe even he is thinking about ignoring this one. The real question is what his actual strategy will be. Will Obama attempt to half-ass a plan that sets us even further back in the Middle East? Or will he try and head off a bold, decisive action in order to send a message? We all know what we’d like the answer to be, but something tells me he’ll pick the path of least resistance. Iraq was, after all, a “dumb war,” to quote Obama himself. Let’s just hope his method of trying to keep a lid on the current chaos over there isn’t so “dumb” that it results in another direct attack on our homeland. At this point, it doesn’t matter how we got into Iraq. What matters is only how Barack Obama chooses to set the tone for our relationship in that region from 2014 onward. Our fate is now completely intertwined with what goes on over there. Radical Islamists hate the West, and they will do anything in their power to destroy us. Let’s all hope the president known most for his own dithering can at least get one thing right before he leaves office. Otherwise, any progress we may have made in the Middle East will have been for naught.
We can try and pretend that what happens over there should be left to the Iraqis and that we have no business meddling in the affairs of centuries-old conflicts. But that conversation was only valid up until the time that we intervened. Now, America’s fingerprints over the course of two presidencies are all over Iraq. We can profess that it’s not our problem, but eventually, this WILL bite the United States in the ass once again. The question is whether Obama wants to be the guy who allows that to happen.
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