We all can see what has happened in the Middle East, Isis gains, Iraqi Soldiers run away and the battle between the Sunni and Shia camps  rages across the area.  United States Policy has moved to an even more confused state, if that’s possible.  We ship arms to the Shia led Iraqi army that promptly leaves them on the battlefield for Isis as they run away.  So we are in a slightly roundabout way arming Isis.  We are negotiating the timetable for Iran to go nuclear but giving some support to Saudi Arabia in Yemen.  We attack Isis in both in Syria and Iraq while arranging training for rebels to fight Iran’s ally Assad.  There may be a brilliant strategy behind all this but unless we are missing great genius, the U.S. has the confused and lost the trust of everybody involved.

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