If anything demonstrates the real depths of the insanity that is US foreign policy, it is when lawmakers try to outflank the executive branch by indignantly proposing something even more destructive and outright stupid than the existing policy. They like to call it “getting tough” — as if sheer force of will must being their desired outcome in events thousands of miles away about which they most likely know little. Witness this weekend’s appearance by the Representative from New York’s 16th Congressional district, Elliot Engel, demanding that the president’s already destructive policy of covert support for the rebels in Syria … Continue reading US Congress: ‘Fight Terrorism, Arm The Terrorists!’