US foreign policy these days recalls the story about the drunk guy looking for his keys under a streetlight. A passerby chips in to help, but, getting nowhere, stops and asks, "You’re sure you dropped them here?"
"No. It was over there," says the loser, pointing to a dark alley.
"Then why are you looking here?"
"Because the light is better."
The reality is no joke. Our government’s happy-go-lucky commanding officer insists on searching for our lost sense of security where it can never be found... in the rubble of a country that he – with our complicity – has transformed into a living hell. It's all too likely to happen again, perhaps soon in Iran, unless wiser heads prevail.
It seems to me that John Edwards, Barack Obama, and a few other Democrats have better clues about where to look.
Let’s get busy finding those keys. Please follow me below the fold.
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