Other comments have taken shots at the foreign policy for Bush and Obama. We should remember how messy and complicated the region is, not to mention the home fr

Other comments have taken shots at the foreign policy for Bush and Obama. We should remember how messy and complicated the region is, not to mention the home front. “Add 100,000 troops and blast them all”, “get our boys home now”, “get revenge for 9/11”, “don’t repeat Soviet mistakes”. There’s a lot of clamoring at home, and a lot of long-standing tensions abroad. We can assume for both the Bush and Obama administrations that most people were basically trying to do the best they could to solve intractable problems. Foreign policy is really hard. And despite my concern about the political motivations surrounding this deal, hints of peace are welcome.