Lack of conscience and understanding is dangerous for all.

When they have the best universities, the cleverest scientists and the largest companies in the world why do the Americans keep electing egotistical clowns as presidents? In an interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times the gasbag, Barack Obama said," We did not start airstrikes all across Iraq as soon as the ISIS came in because that would have taken the pressure off Nouri al-Maliki." That is so callous, so inhuman, so immoral that it takes your breath away. What he means is that he wanted the ISIS to kill thousands of Iraqis to force Prime Minister Maliki to resign, which he has done since. This is the philosophy of contemptuously lumping innocent people of other nations as ' collateral damage ', as if they are inanimate objects, like furniture or cars. This is what Ronald Reagan did with Gulbuddin Hematyar to defeat Soviet troops in Afghanistan, who then destroyed Kabul and killed thousands. He is still there, this time killing US forces. US companies are paying Jalaluddin Haqqani, another old Afghan friend of Reagan, who called him a " freedom fighter ", for not killing US contractors building roads and not destroying trucks supplying US troops. Having killed thousands of Afghans to find one person, Osama Bin Laden, the US is running away with its tail between its legs and thousands more will die in the civil war that is sure to follow. The stupidity lies in not understanding that Bin Laden did not organise 9/11, sitting in a cave in Tora Bora, the ISI did. An equally stupid move was to create the confrontation with Russia in Ukraine over a lie. President Yanukovych had 2 choices, join the EU and suffer severe austerity with high unemployment, severe poverty and starvation, as in Greece, or take Russia's offer of $15 billion with a long term contract of cheap gas. It was a no-brainer. When he chose Russia's offer western countries instigated an armed insurrection with neo-Nazi Right Sector and Svoboda thugs. That is probably what Putin was referring to when he said," Sadly, it reminds me of World War II, when German fascist forces surrounded our cities, like Leningrad, and shelled population centers and their residents." Britain could be crushed as an ant by Russia, but hiding behind American skirts Cameron is itching for a fight. Why can he not understand that he can never be Margaret Thatcher? Because he does not have the cojones. Meanwhile by getting cheap gas from Russia China has become even more powerful. While the army has sidelined Nawaz Sharif by supporting a civilian coup in Pakistan. India is in much greater danger than before. You can never explain to an unscrupulous gasbag.