Here's the final proof that our foreign policy of global meddling has gone off the deep end: the two Syrian factions we are subsidizing are now battling one another. The latest iteration of the "moderate" Islamist jihadists we've been backing recently engaged in a pitched battle with the Kurdish "People's Protection Units" (YPG). Both are recipients of US tax dollars and the Kurds have the luxury of US "advisors" embedded in their ranks.

In effect, one branch of our gargantuan national security bureaucracy is conducting a proxy war against another branch – and if that doesn't underscore how irrational and out of control our foreign policy mandarins are, then I don't know what will.