U.S. in Total Confusion in the Middle East

Did the neocons ever have a clear policy in the Middle East? Did either Bush? Did Obama? What were they after?

Whatever their objectives may have been, they are dead and buried. They are even forgotten by their perpetrators. They have been replaced by total confusion. There are a dozen countries here, each one with cross rivalries, spats, ethnic divisions, religious divisions and conflicting interests. At this point, the U.S. is just another player in this endlessly confusing and conflicted region, albeit one with money and air power. The U.S. is being pulled this way and that by a dozen or more different forces, and it doesn’t have any clear objectives or policies or instruments to implement them if it did.

Confusion like that being seen now was never intentional. It is not testimony to some deviously concealed plan that has been using ISIS as a pawn. What it shows is that the U.S. government and the CIA are inept, which is what we expect of government and government agencies that have their incentives and face lack of control or monitoring over their activities.

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6:20 pm on November 21, 2014