Listening to the warmongering flip flopping idiots on the right if we took their advice we would end up fighting in the Middle East on all sides.
Now there was me thinking that was the role of the armament industry.
Now many of us warned that wandering blindly into Iraq could end up with a civil war since Saddam just oppressed everyone for decades. As soon as that oppression was lifted without a strong central government and sense of unity this was a recipe for disaster. Part one came after Mission Accomplished, what we are seeing now is a result of a sectarian and weak central government losing control. The fact that this government listens more to Tehran than Washington should not come as a surprise to anyone.
We argued taking sides in Syria would also confuse the situation further, where would our support go once it was distributed amongst many different rebel groups.
Turkey have historical brutal disagreements with the Kurds who seem the best equipped to maintain their own security and this unity in turn makes Turkey nervous.
Iran regards ISIS as the enemy and the Iraqi government as an ally, we regard Iran as the enemy.
Israel regards Iran as the main supporter of terrorism in their region.
Who is funding ISIS? who funded Al Qaeda? One has to look south of Iraq.
There are many other confusions in the region, let alone what is happening in Egypt and Libya.
So if every time there is trouble in the the region do we just go waltzing in and if Strauss is playing in the background, who do we waltz with?
Do we do what McCain and Graham always say and merrily go rushing in on whichever side we think we agree with at the time, we can always change sides later if we don't like it?
Do we occupy forever, did we learn nothing from Vietnam where we could not win? Did we learn nothing from the ruins of past empires? Have we not even learnt that invasion and occupation is a temporary reprieve? Are we prepared to pay the cost in lives?
Has our meddling over the last 14 years or so been beneficial to us, or has it just set the whole region on fire yet again?
So now after so many years of hating Iran do we side with them, do we question the Gulf States what they are getting up to? If we side with Iran will the Israelis get even more upset?
If anyone has a solution to this mess it is not the hawks, they just pour fuel on the fire.