Foreign Policy's Nathaniel Sobel has tracked reaction in the Middle East to President Obama's announcement that the US would expand the war against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and not suprisingly, most commenters took a dim view of the speech. Many of the criticisms echo US domestic concerns about the plan, with a little paranoia directed against Israel for good measure. An "outsourced" war effort, a "foolish and dangerous" policy that only Israel can be responsible for and that Turkey refuses to participate in. That's a sampling of the reaction in the Middle East to President Barack Obama's plans to widen his campaign of airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. Thursday morning, the Middle East woke up to news that Obama expects their governments to sign up for as many as three years of airstrikes and military intervention in Iraq and Syria. The media reaction was decidedly mixed. Echoing Turkey's...(Read Full Post)