If only a certain administration wasn't trying to protect their dumbass BFF in France.
Imagine being lauded for taking on AQ and 6 months later having the people who did the lauding dropping bombs on you, and then recruiting factions of the same AQ like elements to go overthrow the government in Syria, using the weapons of your former army. (not the first time something like that has and will happen)
Insert teary eyed Obama here.