Four years later, it proved everyone wrong.

It’s hard to believe it’s been four years.

Has it turned into a pre-war one?

History, perhaps unfortunately, can’t give us a clear answer to the question of whether we face anything like another Great War. Looking into the rear view mirror can only tell you so much about the conditions ahead. Our situation today is different enough from that of a century ago to make renewed great power war much less than a certainty, but there are enough troubling similarities that we can’t rule the prospect out.

It’s an interesting analysis.

Why the Democrats own it now.

[Noon update]

“A disaster of his own making.”

It was kind of inevitable once he was elected.

Why he owns it now.

Is it the beginning of the end?

As he notes, it’s really become a regional war. The borders don’t mean much any more, and Kurdistan may finally be its own nation, which won’t thrill the Turks.