Yeah, I also didn&#x27;t really agree with this:<p>&gt; <i>Whack-a-mole is a game, not a plan. Leave the Middle East alone. Stop creating more failed states.</i><p>For some reason, I have difficulty thinking that just &quot;leaving the Middle East alone&quot; will somehow lead ISIS to disappear on its own and the Syrian government&#x2F;Syrian rebels&#x2F;Kurds&#x2F;various fundamentalist islamist groups to magically arrive to some peaceful balance. Especially with ISIS having the stated goal of world domination (yeah, just leaving alone those who want to dominate the world rarely works, we tried that for a while before 1939).<p>The truth is, human society and civilization isn&#x27;t a fundamentally stable system that&#x27;s being thrown off by US or European interventions. Intervention is sometimes useful, sometimes bad, and it seems difficult for everyone to estimate whether interventions will be good or not.