Reluctant Hawk

     Calculating US foreign policy is not easy for any administration.   I find myself siding with Obama's policy of "calculative hesitation" rather than the policy of "act first and worry about the outcome later" used by his predecessor.  What should America's response be to the civil war in Syria?  The same question has been ask before only using a different country before the question mark.  Now just as before a Middle East autocrat-dictator  is holding power with a sectarian minority and once again a civil war has turned into a quagmire.  For this reason  reluctant hawks are more gun shy than ever.
     Intervention into the Syrian civil war won't be the cakewalk some think.  The last intervention into the Middle East hopefully taught America to be skeptical of intelligence, be careful of whom you trust, consider the limits of military power and it's aftermath and use "calculative hesitation" when weighing America's national interest.  Fooled once shame on you, fooled twice shame on me.  Or as we say in rattlesnake country "once bitten twice shy"