We now don’t have to watch our backs from Iraq if we dump on Iran or slowly move 150,000 men and equipment to a border state after persuading their dictators into risking everything to help us, assuming our fickled voters give the final go ahead after everything's in place. And that finally makes our threats credible.
Interesting article, and good posts at #44 and #45.
However you look at it, there's a chill wind blowing. For now we see through a glass, darkly.