I must offer this premise. There is no easy way out nor an easy path to follow.  But we are indeed down a path, one that attacks the Sunni backed ISIS.  We now have picked sides in a religious war. What must be realized in this region of the world, the Mideast, is that borders drawn by westerners are of little matter to they who live in the region.  And that is precisely what the national delineations are, lines drawn by westerners. From the Sykes–Picot Agreement which in a fatigued fog resulting from WW I drew up the borders of several countries of the Mideast, to the Balfour Declaration which established Israel, these border formalities come in a distant second to the religious sect affiliations of the Sunnis, Shites and Kurds. It will be ever thus, a continuation of what has been… ever thus.  Yet somehow we believe we must intervene to build a nation or control an area. Folly. Humanitarian concerns create the complication.  What one...(Read Full Post)