Our Vacuous* Foreign Policy; Our enemies have a strategic vision for a global conflict, but we don’t.

 

No bro hug?

Andrew C. McCarthy   ... "Syria, we are told, disintegrated because President Obama’s abdication created a leadership void — “the vacuum” — that al-Qaeda rushed in to fill. The “moderate” Sunni “rebels,” the story goes, were poised to fulfill America’s top priority, undermining Iran, by overthrowing the Shiite regime the mullahs control in Damascus. But the president failed to back “moderate” Sunni “rebels,” who threw in their lot with al-Qaeda — strictly, we are to believe, owing to Obama’s default, not to the ideological harmony of the “rebels” with the jihadists.

"Cross Syria’s eastern border, though, and the vacuum abruptly warps. Now, far from undermining Iran, America’s top priority somehow becomes propping up an Iran-backed Shiite state. Obama’s abdication is thus said to be the failure to “consolidate the gains of the Iraq War” by keeping about 20,000 U.S. troops in place to fend off Sunni “rebels,” who — I know you’ll find this hard to believe — have yet again thrown in their lot with al-Qaeda.

"In fact, it turns out that if the same “rebel” gravitates from Syria to Iraq, he’s no longer even a “rebel” anymore; he’s a “terrorist.' ”...

*Vacuous   1. without contents; empty: the vacuous air.

2. lacking in ideas or intelligence: a vacuous mind. 

3. expressing or characterized by a lack of ideas or intelligence; inane; stupid: a vacuous book. 

4. purposeless; idle: a vacuous way of life.

 

Any time you see definitions included in a post, you will know I had to look up the meaning myself.