We do NOT need to stand together in a "show" of unity, and now -- if ever -- is the time for reasoned criticism.  I'd venture to say that standing apart and offering criticism is a patriotic duty, and advocating the contrary is playing right into the hands of those who are at work to subvert our Republic and its tradition of town-hall politics.

Pearl Harbor has not been bombed again.  The Twin Towers haven't fallen again.  Assad the Butcher hasn't attacked America or any American assets.  No Americans have died in Syria -- yet.  Let nobody say we don't have the right -- the obligation -- to make our dissent heard!

Now is precisely the time to question whether we want to take another false-crack at the tar-effigy that's the Middle East and get stuck to it really tight.  We seem to be stuck pretty good already in Afghanistan and Iraq, already America's longest wars.