Our intervention has been disastrous since 2003….hell since the 1980’s and Lebanon…our involvement in the Middle East as been at best a disaster.

Since 2008 we have been involved in more and more conflicts and it seems to be accelerating…..with each passing year……but with all this intervention the question should be asked…….

According to Greg Muttitt, a London-based writer, the best thing the West can do for Libya is to leave it alone.

Last week I wrote about Libya and expressed the hope that the country would be able to find its own path in a future without Gaddafi. The rebels have received important help from France and Britain among other foreign powers. Those foreign powers will be eager to establish a regime in Libya that suits them. Only the Libyan people can create a country whose natural resources support the freedom and prosperity of the many.

Plenty of people will be on hand with advice for the Libyans in the months ahead. I thought it might be useful to think a little more about how best people outside the country might be able to contribute. I turned to Greg Muttitt, a London-based writer who has made an intense study of the politics of Western intervention and Iraqi resistance in the years since the invasion of 2003.

Source: Western intervention, is it ever helpful? – Al Jazeera English

The West intervention into Libya’s affairs has been anything but helpful……and it is not alone….Syria, Iraq, etc…..none of our interventions has proven to be helpful to anyone but the arms dealers.

Even with lots of proof that this war on terrorism is just a food source for the M-IC……but the conversation remains that we need to use more bombs and more force to solve an unsolvable problem……

The complicated, multidimensional nature of the Syrian civil war continues to discourage clear thinking in debate about U.S. policy toward Syria. The involvement in the conflict of multiple protagonists who are each anathema to the American debaters but who are opposed to each other within Syria is a fundamental complication that too often gets ignored.

Basic questions of what U.S. interests are in Syria too often get overlooked. A recent example is an op-ed by Dennis Ross and Andrew Tabler of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that argues for a bombing campaign against the Assad regime and expresses opposition to any cooperation with Russia in striking violent extremist groups such as ISIS and the Al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra Front.

Source: More Neocon Excuses to Bomb Syria – Consortiumnews

Sanity has got to find a way to assert itself into our foreign policy dialog….this election is NOT that time……there is a chance that after the election that the anti-intervention people will start preparing the country for the next election…..will they succeed?  That is a question that we cannot answer…..only to say…it depends.

Sorry cannot do better than that right now.

I will keep watching and commenting and maybe someone will hear the logic of a more restrained foreign policy.