Just like with N. Korea, we seem to be stuck on doing the same thing, over and over, and somehow thinking that we will get a different result this time.  Every few years a President tells us that they have a new plan for making us safe, ultimately that plan just devolves into us bombing a new and different country, or propping up some 2 bit dictator.  In the end, the results are the same, if not just getting worse.  In the case of both N. Korea and the Middle East as a whole, we need a truly different approach.  Just doing the same thing isn't working.  N. Korea now has nukes, the middle east is more unstable than ever.  In both cases, we have kept doing the same thing year after year.  N. Korea, has been sanctions.  The middle east, it has been a mix of sanctions against some countries, bombing others, helping our sort of allies to bomb yet others, and in some cases, just propping up dictators.  We need to try something different.