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President Obama's on-and-off-again planned American attack on Syria is nothing new. Besides its five declared wars, America has a habit of intervening all over the world. Even apart from clandestine CIA operations, and even after the unhappy end of the Vietnam War, we have attacked lots of countries and non-state militias. The roll call of recent American military interventions is quite astounding: Cambodia, Iran, Libya, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Liberia, Iraq, Haiti, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Zaire and Afghanistan. Even the notion of Past American isolationism is a myth. In the four years between 1912 and 1916 alone, the U.S. sent...

You pay taxes? You contributed to the $2 billion your government gave Egypt this year. And last year. And every year -- for 30 years. Most of it went to Egypt's military. How's that worked out? Now our government will "cautiously" support anti-government rebels in Syria, even though some are openly allied with al-Qaida. Years before, we paid to arm and train the Mujahedeen, the Islamic holy warriors battling the Russians in Afghanistan. That conflict led to the rise of al-Qaida. One of the Mujahedeen factions went on to become the Taliban, with whom we now fight. Advocates of foreign...

As the momentum of the Libyan rebellion has ground to a halt, and Gaddafi has begun to slowly reassert his control over the nation, there is a growing international chorus for a no-fly zone over Libya. Arab despots and European socialists, get-er-done conservatives and no-blood-for-oil liberals, all agree that its time to provide air cover for the rebellion. Well, here are 5 little reasons to think twice before starting our third concurrent overseas adventure. 1. Me, Myself, and I Lets not beat around the bush, whatever the Europeans, the Arabs, and the UN will tell you, this is going to...