To i mean, the administration seems to fear being pulled into will iraq, and on the other hand they have a growing sense that things are going so badly they may have to do something different. Where are we . Michael the american strategy has been to degrade and defeat the islamic state, but it has been under resourced all along. They do not have a strategy that outlines aligns with their objectives. After the fall of ramadi, they have made some course correction by sending american personnel to a new base in an bar anbar. It is an attempt to reach out to the tribes and work more effectively with the military units in anbar that at some point will have to retake ramadi. Charlie does it sound like too little too late to you . Dexter all of this is a sign of the president ambivalence. Charlie this is in ambivalence . Dexter he wants to do something, but he doesnt want to be there. What he doesnt want to be you responsible completely for the collapse of the iraqi state. You will you michae
Stake here than just details. Theres a conflict of vision behind many of these cases. There is a form of modern liberalism that says only the individual in the state israel. Israel. Protect individuals against oppression by other social institutions. Then there is the approach i would call principled pluralism. That says a community of communities that allows people to seek a vision of the good consistent with the common good is a positive thing. It has a positive value. I do think it really matters what perspective what political philosophical perspective you bring to these issues. I come from a more conservative side that says the most important institutions are not the state and more than the individual. They are the institutions in which the individual is shaped or morality is passed. Where culture the standards of a culture are created. The government has a positive role to nurture that pluralism. I do think that there are deep political, philosophical disagreements behind us that