In the words of Don Rumsfeld, that is probably the least-worst option.
What did Assad do that irritated BHO/HRC/KERRY?
Was Assad exercising too much control in Syria?
What was the reasoning for the BHO/HRC/KERRY induced Arab Spring?
What drove GHWB & GWB to invade Iraq?
Was Kuwait guilty of horizontal drilling into Iraqi oil fields?
Did Gaddafi exercise too much control in Libya?
Did not Saddam Hussain keep Iran in check?
Was Afghanistan sheltering terrorists or were the terrorists exercusing too much control in Afghanistan?
Was all this invention aimed at collapsing the Israeli government?
With all our own oil reserves why should we intervene at all?
Did we invent colonialism on the Continent of Africa.
Are we perpetually at war for the sake of weapons and tactical development?
Why isn’t there a cabinet level historian?