Intervention Requires Knowing How to Finish the Job
The American military’s job is to deter, and when that fails, to defeat an enemy, plain and simple. It can create the conditions for change, but it is not the one stop shop where we go to make the world a better place. That requires a strategy. And where we fail, it is because we have no post-military plan: Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc. Understanding that fact, Obama’s death from the air approach to the Middle East appears doomed to failure.