Just to put a little more context on my previous post, my view of “doing nothing” is drastically different either from Fred Hiatt’s view or, apparently, the Obama Administration’s. I don’t consider supplying the Syrian rebels, training them, or providing air support for them, each of which inevitably means we’re supporting DAESH in Syria even as we oppose it in Iraq, a loonier policy than which could hardly be found, to be doing nothing.
