War

Al Qaeda's resurgence in Iraq tied to US backing of rebels in Syria, as predicted.

I hadn't heard the US sent 200 troops back into Iraq since 2012.

New York times blames the violence in the Middle East, now spread to Lebanon, on the lack of US intervention.

"But for all its echoes, the bloodshed that has engulfed Iraq, Lebanon and Syria in the past two weeks exposes something new and destabilizing: the emergence of a post-American Middle East in which no broker has the power, or the will, to contain the region’s sectarian hatreds."

Is this a  joke?