"Obama is picking his targets in Iraq and Syria while missing the
point," by Andrew J. Bacevich, Reuters, September 10,
2014
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=
“We are now living in what we might as well admit is the Age of Iraq,” New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks recently wrote. There, in the Land of the Two Rivers, he continued, the United States confronts the “core problem” of our era — “the interaction between failing secular governance and radical Islam.”
Brooks is wrong. For starters, he misconstrues the core problem — which is a global conflict pitting tradition against modernity. --Andrew J. Bacevich
He explains the last statement above, and the explanation is significant. I think you will find it worth reading, and my working to try to summarize it would not be shorter or easier. Actually I think it's rather easy to understand, for those who are able to read word for word what's on a page.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=
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http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=
“We are now living in what we might as well admit is the Age of Iraq,” New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks recently wrote. There, in the Land of the Two Rivers, he continued, the United States confronts the “core problem” of our era — “the interaction between failing secular governance and radical Islam.”
Brooks is wrong. For starters, he misconstrues the core problem — which is a global conflict pitting tradition against modernity. --Andrew J. Bacevich
He explains the last statement above, and the explanation is significant. I think you will find it worth reading, and my working to try to summarize it would not be shorter or easier. Actually I think it's rather easy to understand, for those who are able to read word for word what's on a page.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/09/10/obama-is-picking-his-targets-while-missing-the-point/?print=1&r=
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For links to my previous messages of the past few months in the topic of Iraq and our involvement with Iraq see
sent 9/4/14 Islamic State issues fake tax receipts to keep trade flowing (+) and follow back the links I gave to earlier messages.
Larry
--
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http://larryatblogspot.blogspot.com/2014/06/sent-61514-1-fox-news-must-die-2-what.html
