On Wednesday the Obama administration was caught off guard by Russia's rapid rise in Syria. As the Russians began bombing a US-supported militia along the Damascus-Homs highway, Secretary of State John Kerry was meeting with his Russia counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, at the UN. Just hours before their meeting Kerry was insisting that Russia's presence in Syria would likely be a positive development.
Reacting to the administration's humiliation, Republican Sen. John McCain said, "This administration has confused our friends, encouraged our enemies, mistaken an excess of caution for prudence and replaced the risks of action with the perils of inaction."
McCain added that Russian President Vladimir Putin had stepped "into the wreckage of this administration's Middle East policy."
While directed at the administration, McCain's general point is universally applicable. Today is no time for an overabundance of caution.
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The system of centralized regimes that held sway in the Arab world since the breakup of the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago has unraveled. The shape of the new order has yet to be determined
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