I suspect Mr. Luttwak fancies himself a 21st century Herman Kahn.

He's wrong.

The article did make some good points, but failed dismally by not even raising the central question: Why should we do anything?

We don't have any friends in this fight. I don't think there's any of them I'd WANT as a friend. At best, there are some innocent civilians caught in the crossfire. Fine, let's establish protected safe havens. But as for the rest, as far as I'm concerned they can slaughter each other to their bloodthirsty, savage little hearts' content and Shaitan can sort 'em out.