[Alex Murphy]

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that U.S.-led airstrikes on Syria would be “unbelievably small” was only in context to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Unbelievably small - as small as a grain of rice.

[Skepolitic]

It’s unbelievable that they have any confidence that US involvement in Syria will remain small.

The best case scenario is that initial strike will be small only in the sense that the tip of an iceberg is small. The worst case scenario is that it will be small in the sense that the assassination of an archduke is small in comparison to World War I.