The US blew it twice in the 20th century. First, we won the war, then we allowed France to act like they had done so, making the rise of a Hitler possible. We stopped WW II too soon. We should have not allowed any other nation to have nukes. Sorry, more than twice.......
"Syria's President Assad is Saddam Hussein's Bathhist cousin"...WHAT? How is this rather VITAL fact gone missing when we were trying to figure out where Saddam might have hidden his WMDs....