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I think his foreign policy may be his undoing. Especially if he is a non-interventionist in all situations. Just because it was a mistake to go into the 2 wars 15 years ago, doesn't mean it will be correct to not intervene in other situations in the future. Could the ISIS have been headed off if there was an intervenI see what you did there.
MultiGrooves
I think his foreign policy may be his undoing. Especially if he is a non-interventionist in all situations. Just because it was a mistake to go into the 2 wars 15 years ago, doesn't mean it will be correct to not intervene in other situations in the future. Could the ISIS have been headed off if there was an intervention in Syria to remove Assad and the subsequent power vacuum managed? No-one really knows. Some times I feel that this is a central message of the stop the war campaign.
Just like no one can say what Iraq would be like now if Saddam had been left to his own devices. I recognise that that war was a mistake in both implementation and reasoning but I'm open to the fact that, however bad Iraq is now, it may actually be a better place than if no one intervened. I am suspicious of anyone who will tell me with certainty that Iraq is better or worse off because of the intervention.