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What would George Washington do with Syria?

George Washington asked his countrymen, "Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground?"He could easily pose the same question today as the United States lunges towards a possible intervention in Syria. Now is the time to stop and ask ourselves, "why?"Iran, whose official policy is "Death to America," is backing Syrian President Assad's forces, which may have used sarin gas against the Al Qaeda linked rebels, whose ranks comprise the same people that the United States fought in Iraq. Got all that? This is a tangled mess of factions, many of whom have vowed to destroy us.Before jumping to the aid any side, our founding principles advocate that we consider our stake in the outcome. Article II of the U.S. Constitution bestows the president of the United States with "commander-in-chief powers," but provides virtually no elaboration on what they entail. The laconic text was left in such a state, in part, because everyone in 18th-century America already knew what this phrase meant: those pow...

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