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KoKo

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2. Much of it is very strange.
Thu May 21, 2015, 08:59 PM
May 2015

Where are we...As someone said on a News Report from Foreign Media today...U.S. Foreign Policy is "Drones and Ninjas." I had to think a bit and realized that there is some truth in that. But, then, I'm not in favor of U.S. Boots on the Ground once again since that didn't seem to work either.

I see Obama's Foreign Policy as a bit of "Hands Off" as he prepares to leave ....but, that might not work out for him given the dire situation and the Death, Destruction, Dislocation of Millions of Men, Women, Children whose whole lives have been affected and they are innocent of all of this. Caught up in circumstance they had little or no control over.

But, either we go in and bomb the hell out of everyone, put in major armed forces (where there will be hand to hand combat with ISIS and many deaths will occur)....or we leave it off to a new President. Or, we allow Iran and Russia to come in and take over where we left off to finish the rearranging of the MENA. Those solutions leave off U.S.'s responsibility for what has happened because of our meddling in such an aggressive way after "9/11" when we rushed without thinking to achieve a goal of a Think Tank who wrote the rules for "Remaking the ME to a their own self interested Model."

Not good options, imho.

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Much of it is very strange. KoKo May 2015 #2
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A good read...! KoKo May 2015 #20
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