Even if the United States were not being led by the pusillanimous and incompetent Obama administration, it would be high time for Middle Eastern and NATO countries to start picking up some of the burden of dealing, financially and militarily, with the terrorist threat they face.
And time will tell whether this story checks out, or is more than a token effort.
It’s worth noting that the Reggimento San Marco is the Italian version of the Marine Corps.
If it goes through and is successful, Comrade Obama has some explaining to do on why he didn’t send the U.S.’s version of the Reggimento San Marco. To not do anything would be more or less to concede that Italy is more of a superpower these days….