     Where to begin? Perhaps with President Barack Obama's
initial refusal to support the moderate rebels seeking to
overthrow Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, a puppet of Iran and
bagman for Hezbollah. Or we might start with Mr. Obama's refusal
to support the Green Movement in Iran, which sought to overthrow
the Iranian regime, which would have been a triumph for both our
principles and national interests.  These were odd choices,
particularly given his decision to help depose Libyan dictator
Moammar Gadhafi, an indisputably evil man, but also a dictator
who posed no threat, abided by our demands to relinquish WMDs
and whose domestic death toll was a tiny fraction of Bashar
Assad's.  "We cannot stand idly by when a tyrant tells his
people there will be no mercy ... where innocent men and women
face brutality and death at the hands of their own government"
was Mr. Obama's justification for an attack on Libya -- without
congressional approval. But when Mr. Assad killed tenfold as
many men, women and children, Mr.