Ray was asked why President Obama told The Atlantic that he is “very proud” at having resisted enormous pressure from what he called the “Washington playbook” people – including top national security advisers, VP Joe Biden, and other “smart” folks – to launch Shock and Awe on Syria in late summer 2013.

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Ray noted that in 2014, no-longer-in-office ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was highly critical of Obama for calling off the attack on Syria for which the neocons and she had been lusting. She even took a potshot at Obama’s dictum “Don’t do stupid stuff.”

Obama’s remarks to The Atlantic make it abundantly clear that Obama has finally come to understand that the violent disarray in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and in Libya (hat-tip to Hillary Clinton who pressed hard for armed intervention) is what you get once one you prescind from supremely sensible dicta like “Don’t do….”