Kevin Drum says pretty much the same thing I was trying to say about Syria but, of course, says it better. I might be able to wrap my mind around the "to bomb or not to bomb" question if it was actually about what will best for American interests and sheer morality. But that's not the debate we're starting to have in this country. It's largely in the hands of people who are trying to calculate what action will be the best for their (unrelated to Syria) political objectives.