AP: Obama to deepen America's military role in Mideast

[Associate Justice PiT]

I was hoping for an informative speech. Actually I was expecting it since I heard he'd be laying out a strategy.  Nope.

same here, I was actually expecting too much.

I think the strategy in Iraq is good. The regular army and US airstrikes will eventually manage to drive ISIS out the country.
But in Syria I don't think there is really anything to do, it's too much of a mess, and most of the "moderates" rebels are also islamists who just happen to be a bit less crazy than ISIS. It makes me cringe to hear that the "moderates" rebels will be trained in Saudi Arabia, because when they mean moderates, they actually mean that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Front_(Syria)

It's OK, we need to train our next enemies to defeat.

     It worked in Afghanistan, it will work in Syria too.