Breaking: WH Officials Say President Obama Has Asked Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to Step Down

[JDPriestly]

94. Maybe a focus on dealing with armed and dangerous Muslim radicals rather than a focus

on regime change in Syria? Or maybe a focus both on dealing with the Muslim radicals and on regime change in Syria?

I've wondered since the Benghazi affair to what extent we were involved in Syria. And now some of the Syrian rebels have formed ISIS. Could there be some link to the confusion about our choice of friends in Syria and this "resignation"?

I'm just musing on this. The facts are murky, and I don't have sufficient facts to support what is really just a theory of mine.

And then, Afghanistan is a mess. That war was not well executed. If you are going to go into a country and use military force to achieve a goal, that goal had better be pretty clear, and the means you use to achieve it needs to be even clearer give or take new developments.

We wanted to wage war while still pretending to do good in Afghanistan. The goal was uncleary. Therefore the methods were inefficient and unsuccessful.

You either fight a war against an enemy or you help your friends. But you can't fight a war unless you can identify your enemy and wait until after you win to try to help the friends that are left.