Syria may show how little some U.S. political leaders have learned from 10 years of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Capitol Hill's intensified drumbeat last week for U.S. military intervention in Syria's civil war ignored the long-term implications of what lawmakers were proposing.
Simultaneously Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, a key advocate for intervention in Syria, was talking about mistakes made in Iraq.
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