Obama:Future Commander-in-Chief Gives Advance Notice To Enemy He Will Retreat

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SteveMetz

It's certainly true that the U.S. is in the unenviable position of being damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. Bur I would still argue, in the face of the great and ominous dangers that the West is facing and America being the only power that can defeat global terror, it's better to be damned for doing something than for doing nothing. ("Nothing comes out of nothing" King Lear.)

This despite all the errors that inevitably are committed in all wars as a result of human limitations. And before the daunting huge scale operations involved in war, it's nigh impossible to probe and foresee all the unknowns embedded in them.