bloated cows bob in fetid waters

I might do this if problems in the mid-east were a computer game:

• put US on total war footing, meaning institute draft and redirect tax cuts into military spending.
• stop fighting Taliban in Afghanistan: rather, leave country to them but line Pashtun tribal area border with troops, mines, whatever - no one crosses the border. Leave Taliban left in Afghanistan to criminal Afghan tribal elements to exterminate.
  
• withdraw support of Israel forcing them either into a peace agreement with Palestinians or into a war to solve issue once and for all; recognise Saudi Arabia as a more important ally than Israel - at least for immediate official purposes.
• since preceding would lead to political upheaval in America must stage military coup to secure the country. That should help with the draft I bet. At same time take over Fox broadcasting and bring back Arrested Development - good show.
  
• get rid of Maliki, assassinate Sadr, and back a Sunni strongman in take over of Iraq under a brutal but fair regime of martial law - brutal but fair, I said. It's a computer game! I can do whatever I want. Divide country into ethnic regions. Give Kurds Kirkuk and threaten Turkey with annihilation if they make a fuss.
• use an infantry division to annex a nice northern part of Iran with help of Kurds thus destabilizing Iranian Shia leadership; with Sunni's on my side and Israel acquiescing I can deal with resulting dynamics. Will need at least three carrier groups in Persian Gulf. Might want to drop a small nuke in some deserted part of Iran just to focus their attention.
• use some kind of weather machine to ruin grape harvest in France thus plunging country into absolute despair leading to collapse of European Union and hopefully United Nations along with it.
  
• dissolve NATO and form new alliance - Transoceanic Alliance 'tween Germany, England, North America, Japan and Australia. This will force Russia and China into an alliance and they will feel compelled to come to the aid of Iran.
  
• blockade Iran and cut off trade with China. Things will probably start to get ugly then.
• exit computer game and pick up email.