“As with Libya, there are reasons to stay out. In the strictest sense, Syria is not our fight. But a good many lives are at stake and there is nothing wrong with using American might in a humanitarian cause. The United States had no dog in the fight in the Balkans, to recall James Baker’s felicitous phrase, but it ended the horror there by bombing Serb military positions and then Serbia itself. That operation was hardly brief — it lasted for 78 days— but it cost not a single American life. The same was true for Libya. No American lives lost.”
Remember the liberal definition of a “good war:” Only the wogs die.
The idea of taking out a country’s dictatorship in order to have an effect on the surrounding nations is an interesting one. I’m trying to remember where I heard it before.