My friends, so intelligent, so varied.
I also agree that this discourse is quite interesting, and I apologize for mixing up Sunni and Shia...my brain was working faster than my fingers.
So, back to the issue at hand.
I do not wish to dwell in past actions, though I'm certain they will have an effect for quite a while.
It is quite apparent which administration involved the United States in current foreign adventures, but I don't want to devolve into a blame game.
Current insights can not erase the past, only find "meaning" so as to redirect efforts.
So, let's not discuss the recent past, however attractive that avenue may be. There is no way we can go backwards, and no use faulting ourselves for making wrong turns on that road to find us where we now are. History does not allow "do overs".
Let us discuss the current situation, where we are here, now...
Not how or why we arrived here.
Find where we are now.
The question that I ask is, where are we going? That is the issue.
Back to poker.
The cards have been dealt. They ain't great.
Fold 'em? (Cut and run?)...out.
Stay the course? (ante up)...all in.
How would you play the hand?
DTS
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