America's Frankensteins

President Obama has authorized the deployment of an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq. The plan will more than double the current US force in Iraq and will reportedly cost $5.6 billion.

The Islamic State is a Frankenstein of our creation. And as horrible as it is, the purposes behind the United States' policy in the Middle East must change to be one of preventing, rather than fostering, conflict. For decades now, we have supported various regimes in the Middle East that have been despotic, that have oppressed their people, or, in the alternative, we have supported these groups that have then morphed into these organisations like al-Qaeda and Islamic State. War is the national creed of America.

Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto, CA, USA