An interesting question……as I look at the events unfolding today….instability is the only option we are pursuing…..

Years ago when I was lecturing I had a class on US foreign policy and the Middle East…..I began the class with the end of World war One and the Sykes-Picot Agreement……

This class called into question our policies in the Middle East and whether any of them were capable of forming the region into a calm, relatively speaking, area…….my conclusion then that we were not approaching the problems of the region in an informed manner…..nothing was conducive to calm and peaceful…..our worry about what the Soviets were doing during the Cold war was like blinders……and we missed opportunity after opportunity to make this region more than it is today…….

But was then and today there is still not much that I see as a policy for stability in the Middle East…..

Our lethal and self-defeating Middle East policy appears more aimed at Iran and its allies than at the radical jihadi network that perpetrated 9/11.

Source: Is Instability the Goal of U.S. Policy in the Middle East? – Reason.com