If Fouad Ajami, L. Paul Bremer, Doug Feith, Robert Kagan, Bill Kristol, Karl Rove, Leon Wieseltier, Robert Zarate, and their neocon ilk support something, I automatically assume it's a bad idea.
A group of mostly conservatives affiliated with the Foreign Policy Initiative wrote to the Obama administration asking it to establish "safe zones" in Syria by using military power to protect civilians and counter the Syrian regime's offensive.
"Such safe zones would serve as a destination for civilians fleeing violence," argued the group. "They would also provide the country's opposition groups--which have actively stood up to the Assad regime's relentless aggression, and bravely defended their cities, towns, and villages in the absence of decisive international action--a place to train, be equipped, and organize."
Nothing these guys have ever supported have been good ideas (Invade Iraq--we'll be greeted with flowers! Disband the Iraqi military! Kick out all the Baathists in post-invasion Iraq! Bomb Iran! Move troops from Afghanistan to Iraq!).
A group of mostly conservatives affiliated with the Foreign Policy Initiative wrote to the Obama administration asking it to establish "safe zones" in Syria by using military power to protect civilians and counter the Syrian regime's offensive.
"Such safe zones would serve as a destination for civilians fleeing violence," argued the group. "They would also provide the country's opposition groups--which have actively stood up to the Assad regime's relentless aggression, and bravely defended their cities, towns, and villages in the absence of decisive international action--a place to train, be equipped, and organize."
Nothing these guys have ever supported have been good ideas (Invade Iraq--we'll be greeted with flowers! Disband the Iraqi military! Kick out all the Baathists in post-invasion Iraq! Bomb Iran! Move troops from Afghanistan to Iraq!).
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