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Don’t doubt the pool of excuses for greater military intervention. In case you missed it, Senator Lindsey Graham already proposed putting U.S. boots on the ground to secure Syrian chemical weapons. And the restrained Senator Carl Levin now proposes a “no fly zone” operated by U.S. fighters. And what if these measures fail? And just imagine if every military measure succeeded, and Syria fell into our laps. Would not the British, French, Arabs, and the United States quietly slink away from responsibility as they all did in Libya, only to watch as Libya imploded on the rest of North Africa.