re: #114 Lawrior

Or he had enough wars over there that were not going as planned that starting another was not seen as the best course.

One of my personal theories is that this is exactly why Bush left Syria alone, despite all the accumulating evidence that Iraq’s WMDs may have been transferred there. Perhaps he hypocritically abandoned his quest to eliminate WMDs when the size of the task exceeded his political and military resources.

But anyway, I thought the theory was that democracy would just spontaneously ignite throughout the Arab world, once a single Arab country got a taste of it. And that certainly didn’t happen.