The president should focus on China, India, Russia, Germany — not Iraq, Syria, Ukraine!

[yortsed snacilbuper]

When it comes to involving America in global issues such as climate change or the Ebola epidemic, the troubled, low-caliber countries are irrelevant in solving them. It is nice to play with puppies, but the United States should be in the game with the big dogs, not splashing around in the Eastern Caucasus or mid-Mesopotamia.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. He can pay attention to all of it. He hasn't taken his eye off China, and

Russia is just a recurrent problem to be dealt with. There is more going on than meets the eye with this ISIS thing, as well--leaving that situation to fester might result in a very unstable, unfavorably shifting middle east.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

2. Yes, it's quite the high wire to walk

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/17/france-five-arrested-suspicion-female-jihadi-recruitment-syria

[LittleBlue]

3. China's loving this. Obama's "pivot to Asia" has crashed and burned

China was getting heat for the South China Sea oil conflict. We were pivoting to Asia away from the Middle East, or so we were told.

Since then Syria had a civil war, ISIS has appeared, and Crimea was annexed by Russia. How naive to think we can move on and deal with China when we haven't put out the fires that we started elsewhere!

Nope. There have been articles for months that the so-called pivot never really happened. Probably decaying deep in the bowels of a forgotten think tank.