A Course Correction

What the United States needs to (but will not) do in the Middle East is to back Israel as it is the only nation that shares our pluralistic, tolerant values. We should take a hands-off approach to the ongoing conflict in Syria because there is no "good guy" in the fight between Assad and the Iranian/Hezbollah proxy army that has come to back him and the Sunni al-Qaeda types trying to oust Assad. America has damaged Egypt too much already with our early full-throated support of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood supporters. There are no facile answers to solve the problems of the Muslim world but the best path toward world peace and stability that the US could embark upon would be to launch a surgical preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear production facilities and in the same pinpoint strike destroy their offensive weapons capabilities. That and standing with Israel as the "Jewish State" would make the globe a safer place, but Barack Hussein Obama and his "blame Israel" administration will do neither.