An idea whose time has come

At Contentions, Max Boot refers to Syria as 'low-hanging fruit' as compared with Iran, and urges the United States to take action against it: At a minimum, we should give our special operators the freedom to strike across the Syria-Iran border, if they think that will help stop the “ratlines” over which an estimated 50 to 80 jihadis a month are entering Iraq. (I’ve talked to some of our commandos