One Simple Rule for U.S. Military Intervention

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May 31 (Bloomberg) -- As demand starts to build onPresident Barack Obama to “do something” about the deterioratingsituation in Syria, let’s review where the U.S. and its citizensstand on the general question of using military force abroad.

On this issue, Americans are divided in strange ways. It’sno longer a matter of hawks and doves. There are liberal hawksand conservative doves as well as conservative hawks and liberaldoves.