Juan Cole spells them out. I may quibble with a couple of his reasons but he’s essentially right (and I could add another reason or two of my own). After America’s fiasco in Iraq I simply cannot believe that normally level-headed people in Washington would even consider—let alone advocate—a slippery slope military engagement in Syria. Libya was easy (relatively). Syria would not be. An intervention in Syria would be a mega-fiasco in the making. Stay out of it!
