Forces in the U.S. who believe the military is best when it is
fighting are again beating the drums for war in Iraq. President
Obama’s present plans are to arm and train moderate Syrian rebels
and induce them to fight ISIS on the ground while the U.S. provides
air cover. But what if the U.S. really cannot tell the moderate
Syrian fighters from the fanatical Syrian fighters? What if they
are one and the same fighters, whose moderation or fanaticism
changes with the politics and military needs of the moment?
We have been here before, writes Andrew Napolitano—allowing
American arms dealers to sell to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s;
equipping Iraqi and Afghan troops over the past decade (many of
whom went on to join the ISIS resistance). None of this has made a
single American freer or safer. What if the government here cannot
recognize its failures? What if a people who cannot understand the
mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them? What do we do?
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