Secretary of State John Kerry on Charlie Rose tonight favors a unified Iraq and Syria. Its a preference for civil war that never settles. In Syria he negotiates for a transitional government dependent on the trust and goodwill of people in a fractured society where there is none.
Following day, April 6, Thomas L. Friedman's Impossible Missions editorial reports on the conclusion of Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era by John Hopkins foreign policy professor Michael Mandelbaum which is in an era of easy communication there is a requirement for good consensual governance to pacify. Kings and dictators do not provide it anymore. In this chaotic world after the Arab Spring Mandelbaum argues whether the people of the region are up to self organizing into states practicing good governance. It's a question John Kerry should ask when proposing a goodwill gesture for treachery.
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