I supported the removal of Saddam Hussein and the difficult effort to leave a consensual government in his wake — the most controversial intervention of the last 20 years that nonetheless was authorized by both houses in Congress on 23 writs and stopped the Iraqi model of turning oil revenue into regional attacks and invasions. But in the case of Syria, the obvious advantages of seeing an end to Assad — offering freedom to the populace, stopping the government killing of its own, ending Syria’s corruption of Lebanon, disrupting the Iran/Hezbollah/Syria nexus — are for now certainly outweighed by a number of factors.
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