Attacking Syria Makes Less Sense Than the Iraq War
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Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Watching cable coverage of thepossible military strike on Syria, my wife noticed a repeatedverbal slip: People kept saying “Saddam” when they meant“Assad.”
As Secretary of State John Kerry pointedly acknowledged inhis speech today, the debate is taking place in the shadow ofthe Iraq War that started 10 years ago. If we hadn’t invadedIraq, chances are that we would be in Syria. Now, though,opponents of U.S. military action are warning that it could turnout to be the needless disaster that most people take the IraqWar to have been. That’s unfair. Kerry’s lengthy defensenotwithstanding, a military campaign in Syria has a lot lessgoing for it than the invasion of Iraq did.