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"We haven't been able to find peace for 18 years in Afghanistan," Paul told Fox News's Neil Cavuto in a telephone interview on Monday. "So I certainly don't think we're going to find peace in Syria. But I do think a couple of hundred people there is simply a trip wire for a bigger war or for a calamity for our soldiers."

That's because we haven't even tried to 'find peace'. If you're going to nation-build, you have to nation-build. Not simply sit soldiers in the area and tell the country, oh, go ahead, let's see what you've got. We have to do it like we did to Japan post-WWII: we build the nation, we make all the rules, we are in charge. Period. Granted, Japanese are much more orderly and rules-following than all the tribal Afghanis, but we didn't even try there.

Secondly, we need to completely break apart the Middle East and rebuild it into nations along ethnic/cultural/sectarian lines. Europe's borders that they decided on are just stupid - every country over there is full of internal strife, and that's always going to cause tense situations cross-border. Even for any nation that manages to get itself under control. Half of the map over there really needs to be redrawn.

I agree with redrawing national lines. I also agree that imposing rules after an unconditional surrender worked in Japan. (Plus 2 atom bombs).

Congress will never declare war, so we’re back to the present. We “could” try enforcing air space over a kurdistan region that would eventually become a nation. I’d guess 3 or 4 decades.