Thirteen months later, DeSantis has left the national stage after an aborted presidential run.

An attempt to put Medlock on trial in March was aborted after he suffered an episode of very serious mental ill health.

But he fears what follows — the chaos of a post-Saddam Iraq, or the aborted Islamist governance of post-Mubarak Egypt — may prove to be the most important legacy of Syria’s conflict.

It came two months after their aborted mutiny in Russia.

Instead of allowing doctors to abort pregnancies that are failing, they want to force them to induce labor instead.