OK I Was Wrong

POTUS told us three new things.
1. Sunni communities wanting a national gaurd type unit will get a national gaurd type unit.
2. Not quite 500 more soldiers with specific expertises will be going to Mid East borders.
3. The faces of jihad are not Musilm, and they change constantly.
So, we knew number 3. already in a way; but so many progressive pacifists still live in 2003.
So many hawks live in 2003. In this vein then, they all have the same criticisms for differing reasons.
Our President lets us know he cannot, will not, pretend to be a 2003 government official.
We don't have the Saddam Hussein, who kept religious factions from tearing each other to shreds.
We don't even have Saddam's methods to fall back on so we can keep factions from attempting their
brutal purges.
We don't have the Baathe Party in the form it was when it kept Iraq sovereign.
We no longer even have a leg to stand on when we admonish Russia, of all governments, to respect
another country's borders. We have to demand it of course- but think how that must look to the Russian people?! Of course Putin takes ultimate advantage of how we look in the former bloc.
He goes too far, much much too far, because he is Putin. But he is overmilking the cow we freely
rashly, unwisely gave him!
Barack Obama has to restructure what Bush, Bush Two, and Cheney ripped apart with glee.
The only thing we are lucky to have in this chaos is a man who will attempt to do the restructuring
even though he has to make up the tools as he goes along.
President Obama has to be both the McGuyver of diplomacy and the McGuyver of warfare in each
moment, if we are to go forward.
President Carter is the only one on earth who might have some ideas; but I can't say POTUS would
be comfortable inviting them, or be comfortable using them. Knowing what I know about
President Carter, I can't even say he'd be willing to share.
I know this: both these Presidents have been in much the same breech; and these two both acted
wisely with boldness on the occasions of test.
President Obama, however, has both the Near East and the Far East twitching into uncomfortable
growth patterns at the same time. Thank heaven one set of twitches as yet shows no features of overt violence.
For our sake, I hope POTUS can juggle all over the court in one same instant.