TOM MAGUIRE: Obama And Saddam: No Foolish Consistency Here. “So getting rid of an evil dictator with no credible plan to replace him was not so great an idea in Libya. Nor was it a great idea in Iraq, but it would be just the thing to do in Syria. An arguable difference was that Saddam was not actively quashing a rebellion at the moment in time we invaded – that was earlier, after which we imposed no-fly zones over parts of the country, something Obama refuses to do in the course of opposing Assad. Still, if our friends on the left are only willing to support military action under their ‘responsibility to protect’ concept, they might want to assess the impact of providing the rebels we back with nothing more than pretty speeches support, creative hashtags and ineffectual handwringing. Encouraging rebels to fight when they lack the means to win is not doing them a favor.”