Letting the Weeds Grow.*

 or, Crying Wolf to Do Goats' Work.

America this morning is now bombing on two fronts in Syria.  Not to mention our "clean up" job in Iraq.  Why?

America failed spectacularly in creating its democratic model kitchen with Iraq. So now we have to go back periodically and cut the grass, as they say in Israel, to keep our virulent foes in check.

We're doing it for the ladies, who are endangered by the instability our earlier military campaigns wrought in the region.  But what we're doing is going to protect them, this time. 

We promise, cross our hearts.

It is pre-emption. But the difference with President Obama’s pre-emption is that there is an actual threat to the globe from a vicious, maniacal army. President Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Condoleezza Rice made up a threat to America from a contained and diminished Saddam Hussein to justify pre-emption and serve their more subterranean purposes.

Until America begins governing with humility, the arrogance in Washington will continue unabated, like an invasive species creeping into non-native lands.

“Even if we’re not in a position to give women the better life they deserve,” concluded [Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations], “we are in a position to save many of them from what ISIS would do to them. And that’s significant.”

I don't believe it's Constitutional to keep attacking foreign countries like this because the educated elite in Washington think they know better.

And I'm not alone either...
Enjoy it while it lasts?
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*  Who sowed the seeds of discontent anyway, both in Palestine and in Iraq?