Acerbic Politics

In the Boston Herald there's a couple of great paragraphs that expand what I wrote about in my last post (see below). This seems like a pretty astute observation on the state of foreign affairs in the U.S.

But the war, now in its fourth year, devours resources and energy for other global objectives and feeds mistrust about U.S. intentions, experts say.

“I’m not sure they have changed their mind about to what extent to proceed unilaterally and how much to use military force so much as they have run out of options,” said Richard Stoll, a political science professor at Rice University who studies foreign policy and national security.