There has been a war raging for years in the Middle East……..the last 2 have been disastrous…….conflict raging in Iraq, Syria with spill over waiting to go into Libya, Jordan, Lebanon and possibly Turkey…..with all this violence can the Middle East ever return to its former self?

And that my friends is the real $64,000 question.

I have been saying and writing that the US needs a new approach to foreign policy……the playbook it is working from today is just not producing any wins………for one, the US needs to come to grips with the fact that the Middle East of 20 years ago is gone forever and will never come back.  Once that realize that simple fact then the foreign policy can move forward into the 21st century.

Sadly, the US will continue down its failed path and because NO one in Washington wants to buck the lobbyists for the Military-Industrial Complex we are looking at decades of problems that we must confront…..because an used weapon is a useless weapon!

This road that the Western world is traveling will bring about a few things for certain….Iraq as a nation is gone……Syria as a nation is gone…….the problems will move head long into Lebanon, which already has it warring factions and then there is the desert of North Africa called Libya…….This country is quickly becoming another Iraq/Syria…….and then neighboring countries will have to deal with the rise, more so than now, of the extremists and their tactics.

As events are playing out in the Islamic world…….there is NO road home!  The region created by the insensitivity of the Britain and France in 1919 with the land grab of the Arab lands liberated from the Ottoman Empire is GONE………and soon forgotten.

The Salafists are re-drawing the region’s map and the rest of the world will have to decide what is best for all parties…….but because of self-interests this will be a generational problem…….if not longer.