When history bites you on the butt…

Recent history, let’s say 1950s on, hasn’t been kind to our stupid foreign policy mantra that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend,” especially in the Middle East. We created the Shah in Iran as a favor to the Brits, toppling a democratically elected regime there, and we’re still paying for it. We armed al Qaeda to fight the Russians in Afghanistan, and we’re still paying for it. We “saved” Iraq from Saddam Hussein, who, for all his faults, held all that country’s factions together. Dubya, Che...