Politics: our real enemies

Apparently Syria, in a combined military exercise w/ Sudan, decided to test chemical weapons on people in Darfur. Geez. Add these to countries we might be fighting instead of Iraq if we had our priorities straight.

I don't know if we'd have any more luck coalition building in this sort of conflict than we did in Iraq, but I think this demonstrates an instance of the interest of the US and the world overlapping: Syria is testing chemical weapons. Syria probably has wet dreams about dumping these things on the US, and they probably get off when the scene switches to Israel. So, we protect ourselves, we protect the rest of the world. That sounds like rational self-interest to me.