The last 15 years of US interventionism in the Middle East have set that area back a century and caused an inmesurable human catastrophe. And now, as always when it is convenient, the US is retroceding back to isolationism by graciously accepting a measly 2,000 refugees. As German comedian Hagen Rether put it: "Aren't you happy to be on the good side? Every day I wake up and think to myself: Thank god I'm on the good side".