The election will soon be in the history books…in more ways than one…..but with a win what will the next president face as far as foreign policy goes?

The big question for our next president is….what to do about ISIS?

There are so many players now in the fight…..Iran, Russia, US, Turkey, UK and on and on……will it be just a double down or will the players actually attempt to solve the situation?  (that is rhetorical for we all know the answer)……

When Turkey’s President ordered armed forces to cross into northern Syria with the tacit approval of Washington and Moscow, he was looking one step ahead of the Obama Administration’s waffling approach to the war on the Islamic State (ISIL) and the efforts to end the Syrian war, which is now in a new and even more violent phase.

Essentially, Erdoğan is taking a calculated but well-informed guess that the next US President, whether it is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, will take a more aggressive stance against ISIL and other like-minded organizations — and will not object to Turkey having established an extensive “safe zone” in Northern Syria west of the Euphrates River. Turkish forces have already moved well beyond the limited invasion zone that Erdoğan presented to Vice President Joe Biden, during Biden’s recent visit to Ankara.

Erdoğan is prepared to wait out the final months of the Obama Presidency, which will end, for all practical purposes, immediately after the November presidential elections, when the incoming president-elect will take over the direction of policy.

In both cases, a significant overhaul of US policy on Iraq and Syria can be expected.

Source: Next US President Will Up the Ante against ISIL—But How? | Middle East Briefing

As long as the next president keeps the same dialog going…the Manichean approach…that is good vs evil, right vs wrong…etc….then this will be a protracted scenario with little chance of conclusion…..

But then it seemed that Pentagon official was engaged in one of the intellectual exercises favored by both neoconservatives on the political right and liberal internationalists on the political left: Drawing up foreign policy narratives that reflect the dualistic cosmology of Manichaeism in which international relations is seen as a never-ending struggle between light and darkness, between the forces of good led by the United States that are confronting the bad guys, ranging from “rogue states” to “authoritarian regimes” that threaten to destroy the liberal international order.

But in the real world, as opposed to the imaginary universe that neoconservatives and Wilsonians dream about, there are very few really good protagonists or really bad antagonists.

Source: Dangerous Manichean Foreign Policy Narratives | The National Interest Blog

The problem is this situation is driven by profits not right or wrong…..that will be left to the MSM to sell the idea to the public…in other words….this situation shall continue for the foreseeable future….little to no change will come.