Fight do-somethingism

It's obviously better to do nothing in Ukraine than to do something that will make matters even worse.

The road to intervention by the US often follows a very predictable path, and today we’ve arrived at one of its first forks. The turn in one direction has been tread so rarely that it doesn’t even have a sign. The other turn, however, is one everyone should be familiar with by now: it ends in tragedy, and it is marked by a giant, blinking sign that says…