Time's Up For Boy Assad?

The popular assent for it is there....

....but c'mon - Syria is a U.S. enemy, stooge of the Iranian mullahgarchy to which Red Barry has been groveling since before his ascension, and hates America almost as much as The One himself does.  If even President Bush shrank from invading the Levant to take out the bloody opthamologist, does anybody really believe that Obama'll give Assad the Mubarak treatment?

Meanwhile, the Li'l President and his "international [left-wingnut] community" comrades still can't decide which side of the Libyan "civil war" hates us more, and so still can't decide on which side to intervene.  So they continue to do.....pretty much nothing:

Hopes of quickly establishing a no-fly zone over Libya were dashed in Paris Wednesday when leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations declined to adopt the measure.

Instead, the G8 foreign ministers called on the United Nations Security Council to examine further sanctions against Libya, including economic ones, but made no mention of a possible military action against Colonel Gadhafi’s regime, including the setting up of a no fly zone.

The G-8 agreed “that the U.N. Security Council should increase the pressure, including through economic measures, for Moammar Gadhafi to leave,” G-8 foreign ministers said in their final statement.

Lebanon [i.e. Hezbollahstan], the only Arab country that is a Security Council member, on Monday began conferring on a draft resolution for the no-fly zone over the weekend, but it remained unclear whether if it would get the necessary votes. The draft is based on a proposal approved by the Arab League.

Gotta have the UN permission slip, they do, 'cause they don't want to be seen as, oh, I don't know, exercising leadership, even in a questionable and predominantly ill-defined cause.  So they continue to diddle futilely with "sanctions" that never work while flinching from a "military" solution in the form of a "no-fly" zone that Saddam Hussein effortlessly gamed for a dozen years after the Gulf War, finally necessitating our re-invading to finish the job.

There was a national security interest involved with Operation Iraqi Freedom: taking out an avowed enemy of the U.S., state sponsor of terrorism, and pursuer of weapons of mass destruction, most especially nuclear weapons, and providing American forces with a geostrategic staging area from which to take out both Syria to the northwest and Iran to the east.  What's to be gained from bringing about Khaddafy's ouster in Libya?  How does it help us to chase out an old-style pan-Arabist socialist enemy dictator in highly likely favor of a new-style Islamist theocratic enemy dictatorship?  And that's if we acted decisively; with the half-measures being bandied about, Khaddafy has no reason to fear being deposed any time soon, which will leave him still in power and even more motivated to exact revenge against the West in general and the U.S. in particular.

Exit question: Even if the Regime was capable of identifying our enemies correctly, we really can no longer afford to take them out anymore, can we?  Think THAT's an "accident"?