Recommended: America wants the Impossible

Along the same lines as the preceding post, Spengler's June 16, 2014 article America wants the Impossible is also worth reading and pondering.

His argument is that where America went wrong was not to take out Iran's nuclear facilities early, finance the opposition and essentially neutralize Iran's influence in the region, perhaps also leaving Iraq under a new anti-Iranian strongman after we had toppled Saddam.  This sounds like a radical argument, but really, is it any more radical than what we actually did, which was to engage in two simultaneous wildly expansive decades-long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, leaving them in total shambles and host to innumerable radicalized jihadist terror groups, and as a result leaving the Iranian theocracy as a leading troublemaker in the region?  

His indictments of America policy, and of the prevailing America public mindset, are not comfortable to read.  But read it we all should, and ponder whether he may not have some valid points.