Chemical weapons in Syria...massed gang rape in Sudan.
Sorry, I came to this argument kind of late.
]]>My take is that BoB doesn't want to get involved in this..really, really doesn't want to get involved, but is being more or less forced into it.
Problems which fester in one place don't usually stay in one place, which was the initial impetus behind the (incredibly stupid) war on Iraq/Afghanistan/Terrorism/Antiamericanism.
What will likely happen is a series of nasty bombings of various regime/government buildings designed to degrade the state. Nothing more.
The problem is...we don't really want anyone involved to WIN the war. We want Assad to lose. We want the 'rebels' (who do appear to be mostly mercenaries or anti-american/christian/western crazies) to lose. We want everyone to lose.
But if someone doesn't move in and enforce the norms against the use of chemical weapons, pretty soon that reluctance will diminish.
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