Here's another very important bit of foreign policy news. I have criticized President Obama for his Hamlet act over Syria and for letting local allies support the rebels and steer money and weapons to Islamists. I thought that we hadn't learned the big lesson of Afghanistan, where we were so eager to break the power of the Soviet Union—an entirely worthwhile goal—that we let our Saudi and Pakistani allies steer money and weapons to the more Islamist elements within the
The Lessons of Afghanistan
The Lessons of Afghanistan
The Lessons of Afghanistan
Here's another very important bit of foreign policy news. I have criticized President Obama for his Hamlet act over Syria and for letting local allies support the rebels and steer money and weapons to Islamists. I thought that we hadn't learned the big lesson of Afghanistan, where we were so eager to break the power of the Soviet Union—an entirely worthwhile goal—that we let our Saudi and Pakistani allies steer money and weapons to the more Islamist elements within the