War weary

Americans are not only war weary but they are world weary. They learned from the experience in Afghanistan and Iraq the limitations of raw power and now they are learning the limitations of not having the threat of using raw power. Using hindsight we can see an example of both of these concepts and how things would be different. If President Bush were told in 2003 that if we went into Iraq we would suffer the loss of 4,500 troops and injury to 35,000 and it would cost 1.5 trillion dollars and in the end Iraq would end up in chaos, he would have decided against going into Iraq. If three years ago President Obama was told that if he did not go into Syria to depose Assad that 160,000 people would be killed and 3 million sent to camps many in Jordan and terrorist would take over half of Syria and half of Iraq he would have gone in. Unfortunately in the real world we are not gifted with hindsight.