"history dictates"    Another imaginative folkie.   Too bad the grasp of history is not the best.

And don't worry, Syria--and your new favorite dictator-- will be safe.    Perhaps you don't recall that the Security Council (thanks to absentions by China and Russia) authorized a Libyan intervention.   Otherwise Obama was not about to step in.   Whether you realize it or not, there was a US election in 2008--perhaps you missed it---and GWB is no longer president.

But of course all of that was in a newspaper, and folkies know you can never trust what is in a newspaper.