Hey, who wants to extend a war that's already theoretically over? Er... that would be the Americans, who couldn't be bothered with making a case against Syria (they've read The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and decided against it), and would rather simply engage them in a firefight that could goad the Syrians into serious words with the USA.
This saves the trouble of forging documents and making wild accusations, to be sure, but is the US really up to another fight? See reason five of the eight reasons why WMD still matters:
5) As long as US forces are in Iraq, the North Koreans have a free hand. If they were to plunge across the Han River tomorrow, we have ONE heavy division able to deploy to Korea. Half of the US combat power is now stuck playing policeman in Iraq and will be for months, their equipment breaking down daily, men being killed by enemy action.Admittedly, the forces would more conveniently be deployed to Syria than Korea, but really, isn't the preferable option to just freaking avoid starting another war? I'm in no way claiming that the Americans shot first (or that they didn't), only that avoiding confrontations like this should be an extremely high priority... higher than trying to collect an entire suit of Iraq bad guys, even.
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