Same shi**t, different stick!! Sad to say … “Anything war can do, peace can do better!”
Watching the President’s speech last night, I was interested in hearing if he was going to offer anything new when it comes to countering the influence of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham) and what if anything the United States should do to combat this extremism. It became rather clear to me early on though that the country is being led into yet another attempt to bring “regime change” to another sovereign nation. While President Obama compared the coming airstrikes in Syria to the airstrikes that have been launched in Yemen and Somalia during the last four or five years, perhaps a more apt comparison would be what was done to the nation of Libya in 2011. Interestingly, while the rise of ISIS in Iraq can almost certainly be blamed largely on the American invasion of 2003 and subsequent 7 years of occupation, less recognized is the fact that the…
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