Quote of the Weekend on Iraq

From the Wall Street Journal's blistering editorial:

The possibility that a long civil war in Syria would become an incubator for terrorism and destabilize the region was predictable, and we predicted it. "Now the jihadists have descended by the thousands on Syria," we noted last May. "They are also moving men and weapons to and from Iraq, which is increasingly sinking back into Sunni-Shiite civil war. . . . If Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki feels threatened by al Qaeda and a Sunni rebellion, he will increasingly look to Iran to help him stay in power." 

We don't quote ourselves to boast of prescience but to wonder why the Administration did nothing to avert the clearly looming disaster.