Goddammit we have to be able to bomb someone to bring peace!
Saudi Arabia is now bombing the Houthis who are backed by Iran and may even launch a ground offensive into Yemen. Egypt may well join in the fun.
The US is bombing ISIS but the US is not fighting with Iranian Republican Guard in Tikrit, who in turn are not fighting whilst the US is bombing.
Al Qaeda and ISIS are involved in a power struggle in Syria, and the US is bombing ISIS in Syria. Turkey wants the US to bomb Assad, but Assad wants more Russian involvement and wants to negotiate with the US. Meanwhile the bodies keep mounting up.
US legislators have introduced a bill to directly arm the Kurds to fight ISIS. meanwhile the Turkish Government and the Kurds are mutually distrusting each other.
As for Libya, well, difficult to say really.
The Lebanon is more worried about Iran than anything else.
The war in Afghanistan continues
Of course there is always Israel to rely upon.
The Republicans solution to this mess is to get more involved, more bombing, and more intervention, because as everyone knows there will eventually be flowers.
Some even ask where do the arms come from to generate so much instability and bloodshed.
Some have the temerity to ask where funding for Al Qaeda and ISIS comes from, probably everyone will deny any such operation. A bit like "our" funding of the Taliban/Mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the occupation by the USSR and afterwards.
Basically what we have is a sectarian power struggle and do we really want to play piggy in the middle or even choose sides? The other question that still remains unanswered for all our intervention over so many decades since the fall of the Ottoman Empire is, have we done any good? Well apart from ensuring that the "spice flows" I mean. I suppose getting rid of many of the dictators that we originally liked was always going to be tricky.
Some think by bombing Iran this would get better, hi Sen John McCain and company, what the hell makes you think that?
Who to Bomb, surely there must be a way to make it work.