The Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel has urged caution on military intervention in Syria, but she’s a bit more open to perhaps launching a strike elsewhere:

Maybe we could launch intervention in those states which are waging war vs. democracy, rolling back voting rights? — Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) September 4, 2013

This would definitely be a tougher sell than striking in Syria. Not only would that require intervening in 30 states, but 83 percent of Americans support voter-ID laws according to a Marist poll last month; the same poll shows that about three out of four Democrats also are in favor of these types of law.


While they’ve been setting their sights on places like Raleigh and Austin, no word if vanden Heuvel and her peers will go to Damascus to investigate the electoral processes in Syria, where Bashar Assad received 97.6 percent of the vote in 2007.

Via JWF.