Huh?
None of the players there are our allies or even the enemy of our enemies.
They are all bad actors.
Even Putin. He might be killing ISIS, as Trump points out, a good thing, but that’s a means to an end, and not his goal. That’s what Cruz is saying.
Putin has regional goals, and why shouldn’t he? The US under Obama left a power vacuum in the region waiting to be filled. Both Russia and Iran are eyeing the prize.
You don’t have to be a neocon to see that nor do you have to be a neocon to understand and use the power of American resolve to shape world events to our advantage.
I promise you that the end result of Obama’s disastrous foreign policy will bite America, hard. You don’t have to be quick with a trigger to see that. You don’t have to be quick with a trigger address it.
Putin and Iran need to know that there will be pushback from America. It doesn’t mean we have to go to war with them, only that it will be costly for them.
Personally I think the Kurds are the key.