STORY SUMMARY
While Afghanistan and Iraq were both messes which Obama’s predecessors got the country into, former Pentagon chief Gates, who served under six presidents, chastised the Democrat leader for dithering on troop surges and overall strategy.
The ramifications of over a decade of bad U.S. decisions are still being acutely felt.
Without such reparations, the U.S. position in the Middle East might become irrelevant.
Read more: http://dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Editorial/2014/Jan-10/243617-us-nearing-irrelevance.ashx#ixzz2pzqcSHgT
(The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
Categories: Americas, United States
It may not be wise to call the largest weapon producer as ‘irrelevant’. He may want to prove that he is not … (with another war).