Sarah Palin: "So We're Bombing Syria Because Syria is Bombing Syria and I'm the Idiot?"

Yup. See how much better things work out when the "smart people" are in charge?

Update: Mark Steyn comments:

I see the Obama “reset” is going so swimmingly that the president is now threatening to go to war against a dictator who gassed his own people. Don’t worry, this isn’t anything like the dictator who gassed his own people that the discredited warmonger Bush spent 2002 and early 2003 staggering ever more punchily around the country inveighing against. The 2003 dictator who gassed his own people was the leader of the Baath Party of Iraq. The 2013 dictator who gassed his own people is the leader of the Baath Party of Syria. Whole other ball of wax. The administration’s ingenious plan is to lose this war in far less time than we usually take. In the unimprovable formulation of an unnamed official speaking to the Los Angeles Times, the White House is carefully calibrating a military action “just muscular enough not to get mocked.”

No need to worry about that (the mocking, I mean). It isn't like they're dumb rednecks like Sarah Palin, or anything. Steyn goes on to say:

For a quarter-century, from Kuwait to Kosovo to Kandahar, the civilized world has gone to war only in order to save or liberate Muslims. The Pentagon is little more than central dispatch for the U.S. military’s Muslim Fast Squad. And what do we have to show for it? Liberating Syria isn’t like liberating the Netherlands: In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.

Meanwhile, your only real friend in the area--Israel--is likely to  feel the wrath of the Baathist and his bombs as a way of lashing out at you.