(UPI) -- Eighty percent of Americans asked say they favor a pivot -- but it isn't to Syria.
Following the $2 trillion geopolitical disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan, the message is a one-word pivot -- home!
Even the head of the prestigious Council of Foreign Relations, Robert Haass, says it's time to prioritize the home front where everything from roads to railroads and from bridges to balustrades has long been neglected.
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Two conservative U.S. senators flew to Cairo to plead the case of the Muslim Brotherhood and to denounce what they called a military coup. This congressional sortie had zero impact and demonstrated how little two supposedly well-informed senators understand about a dictatorial theocracy that had torched Cairo Jan. 26, 1952 -- 61 years ago.