Everything it touches turns to lead. Next up: when we finally leave Iraq after our misbegotten war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, we leave our old collaborators wide open to payback as our experiment in creating the Great Society on barren Muslim soil slides back into democratically elected tyranny. Be nice to the US or we’ll bring democracy to your country.
It had to end this way, which is why it never should have started.
“Those who decide that all peaceful means that international law makes available are exhausted, assume a grave responsibility before God, their conscience and history,” said Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls.