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To: LindyBill who wrote (618828)	12/16/2016 10:21:32 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793917

You cannot be a doctor without first studying anatomy, biochemistry, physiology and other basic sciences. Exactly the same way, a great nation cannot develop a good foreign policy without taking into account tons of knowledge about the other players. I have a sense that our policy specialists are brainwashed products of generations of previous armchair strategists. I suspect that they are too willing to play along with the political needs and whims of the hierarchies of their bosses above them. I think a guy like Lawrence of Arabia - while, in some ways, he seems to have been a bit of a nutcase - because of his real knowledge of the area must have been worth, as an advisor to his government, a lot more than his weight in gold.

To: LindyBill who wrote (618828)	12/16/2016 11:01:03 AM
From: Mrjns	2 Recommendations Recommended By dave rose skinowski Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793917

Bush's was the worst. Obama compounded it. That seems way too generous to Obama. Not a big fan of Bush and he may have started the process but his mistake pales in comparison to Obama's who knew Iraq was a mistake. Just Syria with what amounts to a genocide and the European refugee crisis overshadows anything in Iraq. And that's not counting Egypt, Libya, a nuclear Iran and the rise of ISIS. If someone intentionally set about screwing things up in the ME he couldn't have done a better job than what Obama did.