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The Most Tentative Argument for War You'll Read Today

The hesitant hawk

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There's not much to like in Michael Tomasky's hawkish column about Syria in The Daily Beast today, but I appreciated this burst of candor at the end:

Yes, an American attack might escalate matters. But it also might not. We got in and out of Libya. It's not clear what that one accomplished yet, although we did presumably prevent a slaughter of many thousands in Benghazi.

"Presumably." When this is the case for war, you know that popular momentum is on the doves' side.