[Urbane Guerrilla]

And jaguar, you should really keep in mind that enabling dictators and dictatorships, by doing anything to keep them in continued existence, doesn't climb very high on the sanity scale either. One can never call the demolition of a totalitarian regime wrongful -- no matter where, no matter when, although sooner is better as a rule. Syria minus a terrorist-supporting regime is going to be a better deal for absolutely everyone, including Syrians. "There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood..."

The Bush Administration understands more deeply than many that one root cause of Arab terrorism is autocratic Arab regimes -- in short, just about all of them.