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many fighters who are just as
happy harming Americans as they
are battling the Assad regime. The
primary difference is that an intervention on Syria would be much
harder to pull off. If we actually
took a searing look at the Libyan
intervention itself, the dubiety
of such an intervention in Syria
would be more pronounced.
But that’s not what’s happening, and so it’s hardly a shock
that, with Syria, we have similar calls for a “no-fly zone” and
“arming the rebels” in a way that
ensures that only the “right”
rebels get arms, all of which is
supposed to be pulled off without having to put “boots on the
ground.” The mental disconnect
between all the anger-banging
about Benghazi and the screeching for more intervening in Syria
reached an apotheosis on ABC
News’ This Week, when Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.) seamlessly transitioned from calling Benghazi a
“cover-up” to insisting that U.S.
forces should intervene in such
a way that allow Syrian rebels to
have their own “Benghazi.”
And, yes, that is precisely what
McCain proposed, wit