1. My take is this... I was in the Army and learned this lesson: If you want to fight, you must want to win. The way we should handle all these brushfire wars is to go in with immediate massive forces, take out our objectives (the chemical weapons, President Assad's person or his body, and anything else we consider a danger to the world) and then immediately leave. Case closed.

2. And in war you never apologize. You kick ass with everything you have and then you walk away. Surgical-schmurgical. There lies the fool who thinks ANY attack can be 'surgical.'

3. Remember that somebody is going to get killed, no matter how much you believe the hoopla about "precision" weapons. The kid walking down the street, the bus driver, the man washing a window a block away, are going to die, no matter how precise you think your bomb is. The military has whitewashed the language and calls it "collateral damage" when civilians get killed. It is not a video game.