It's time to stop the foreign policy crisis intervention cycle

If you feel every time you get up in the morning there’s a new foreign policy crisis facing the nation, you’re not alone.

It can be dizzying how a confrontation in one area of the world is quickly replaced by conflict in another area. Often these seem to happen simultaneously.

Russia’s invasion of the Crimea has now turned into a near-civil war in the Ukraine. Israel invades the Gaza Strip — again — and while there is currently a cease fire, we all know how long those tend to last.

Battling terrorism in Iraq and a civil war in Syria has created the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — or the Isla...