Here is the other...I have no idea who this person is.  I found the link in the comment section to Krauthammer's piece.  You can skip past his opening comments (the first 5 or so paragraphs) as it pertains to this discussion...it is his analysis on the past and present I am submitting for consideration:


http://amishmashpaddywhack.blogspot.com/2013/09/deja-vu-in-syria.html?m=1



In closing, I am currently favoring what no one is really discussing...and that is a formal three state solution for Iraq as well as butting out from deposing Assad.  I think there is a role for our military might,  I do not think it would be to our long term geo political strategic advantage to completely remove ourselves from the area, but but we need to  foster a more advantageous political solution or the military strikes will be indefinite (see both links above). AND I think we need to work faster and harder for real oil independence and to protect the homeland for real.