The enemy of my enemy is my friend?

Much U.S. foreign policy follows this dogma. Now Obama wants $500 million—that’s point five billion, in American’s crazy accounting—to help out the Syrian rebels. Not only is this a 180-degree turn in policy with respect to the civil war there, it’s a bad mistake. Clearly, Obama is trying to appease hawks in Congress who accuse him of dropping the ball in Iraq—oh yes, the old neocon contingent is piping up there too—and maybe trying to do something in a situation where there is no easy soluti...