“We are not there to bring sweetness and light to the indigs. We bring what sweetness and light we do to support our agenda, not there’s. The place is a bottomless pit of needy supplicants, infidel-hating fanatics, murderous pederasts, and baksheesh-extorting “officials” beyond our capability to unfornicate.”

Sounds like the South Side of Chicago, or South-Central LA.

So what DO you do with a failed nation-state? Or any failed polity similarly screwed up? And how do we sell that to the American people as essential to National Security?
Tough questions.

But I agree on one point; we are being played. After watching Barack Obama the last few weeks, I am now thoroughly convinced the man is not bright enough to have won this election on his own.