Middle East: Know the Limits of U.S. Power

"America helped Iraq contain revolutionary Iran in the 1980s." Did I really just read that?! This is something we're proud of??? The fact that through fanning the flames on both sides of a conflict, selling arms to the Iraqi's directly and the Iranians through Israel, and making no real diplomatic effort to stop the war, we are in an indirect way responsible for 500,000+ dead and countless more wounded? Not to mention the economic destruction of Iran that continues to harm that country to this day. This is an example of succesful American foreign policy? What sort of neo-con wrote this!? I am disgusted.

???Sarah Palin haters???, I think people who use that phrase are missing the point. It really isn???t hatred, it is disgust, disgust with her many faults and her brazenness and then surprise and disgust first with John McCain for bringing her out of obscurity and now with those who are trying to make her their next puppet to pick up where GWBush left off. There is where the fault really lies. One individual stated they didn???t think she was a sociopathic personality because she had meaningful relationships but, as McCain discovered, it is apparent she just uses relationships for her advantage. They also felt she deserved credit for having her DS baby instead of aborting yet there is the question, does she deserve credit when she constantly uses the baby as a prop, soliciting sympathy and recognition, and then just handing him off? No, those along with all of her other self-focused characteristics, especially the lack of any conscience, strongly suggest she really fits the sociopathic category and would be a real disaster in any national office (as the sociopathic GWBush has been). Personally, I think she is a sick and sad case and simply wish she would just fade away. George W Bush has proven to be the worst President this country has ever had and we need to remember all of it in order to recognize and reject anyone else who is similar ??? Sarah Palin is a cut from the same mold! The Republican Party can do better and we need to demand that they do so, not for them but for us.

This coward and appeaser would lead to Iran having a nuclear weapon and spreading its Jihadist agenda throughout the Middle East. Only a tough stand on states that support terror and fascist ideology can check the spread of violence and terror in the Middle East and beyond.

At last a sane voice in foreign policy, let the Middle-East societies evolve through natural course not manipulation by foreign powers, Mr. Mearsheimer is much more suited to be a Secretary of State, we need US to be a neutral refry for a whole region not just another coach for a few players in a region!