As the US debates

 whether or not to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, there is a strange reversal of 'hawks and doves', compared to the Iraq war. Good quote today on AOL.

'Just about the only completely consistent person is John McCain, who’s always spoiling for a fight.

Once more, we see the magnitude of the tragedy of Iraq because the decision on Syria is so colored by the fact that an American president and vice president took us to war in the Middle East on false pretenses and juiced up intelligence, dragging the country into an emotionally and financially exhausting decade of war and an identity crisis about our role in the world. GW was so black and white, as he mischaracterized and miscalculated, that he ended up driving America into a gray haze.'

 

That could be W's only positive lasting legacy. After his disastrous 'leadership', we, as a country, are much more cautious, when it comes to committing to war. BUT, I mistakenly thought that after the fiasco in Viet Nam.