Robert Caruso
Robert served in the Department of State and Department of Defense in both the Bush and Obama administrations.
The Race Is Not to the Swift
The Middle East and Africa are short on fledgling democracies. It’s time to accept the savage will usually win.This past weekend, Iraqi Security Forces began to leak word to Western outlets they were ordered to stand down and not engage militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, lest it jeopardize their lives and their commanders lives. Now, by their own admission, this makes the ISFs political utility exactly useless. The Iraqi Security Forces, as the name suggests, are supposed to provide security, as a unified force, for Iraq.Robert Caruso3 min read