Blue State Blues: Here's a Strategy--Declare a War on ISIS, and Win It

Blue State Blues: Here's a Strategy--Declare a War on ISIS, and Win It: "But I don't want to put the cart before the horse. We don't have a strategy yet." With those words, President Barack Obama summarized the weakness and incompetence of his own administration. Nearly six years into office, and several years after the Syrian civil war began, and the avatar of "smart power" still cannot figure out what to do. He is paralyzed by his own postmodernism: to act is to lose the moral high ground of perspective, to become the object rather than the subject of criticism. So he talks, and talks, and talks--and does nothing.

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