This Will Work Out Swell

So we spent 11 years after the 1991 ceasefire futilely trying to get Saddam to behave. Then we debated invading Iraq for a year before we liberated Iraqis. This is known on the left as a "rush to war."

Now that the left runs the White House, they are unwilling to repeat Iraq (120,000 dead in Iraq, victory over a minority dictator and an al Qaeda invasion, ensured no WMD in the hands of a brutal regime, and established a fragile democracy)  in Syria.

So we've dithered for a year and a half about intervening against Assad.

Already we have 100,000 dead Syrians, WMD use, a minority dictatorship in place, and an al Qaeda invasion of Syria.

Huh.

But wait! There's more! Strategypage notes that the ongoing war in Syria threatens to drag in Iraq to make it a regional Shia-Sunni war--with the Saudis joining in too, for those who want to explore worst case scenarios.

So we could lose Iraq, too, in an inept effort to avoid "repeating" Iraq. But we didn't intervene in any way to avoid "militarizing" the conflict in Syria, as Secretary of State Clinton so idiotically put it.

Isn't smart diplomacy grand?