World: Going to Hell in Handbasket?

So I'm sitting here reading my news feed on Google News, and realizing that pretty much nothing cool is happening right now. I figured I'd provide some interesting news links for potential news stories in the coming days/weeks/months and then maybe find something or other to talk about.

Thousands more Syrian troops deployed on Lebanon border.

Russia, Libya sign civil nuclear deal as Kadhafi visits: Tripoli

Now El Loco's pursuing the bomb

Syria may have approved US border incursion

The Syrian border raid is of interest to me. It marks the continuation of the most recent manifestation of American counterterror operations. Does the United States have the right to protect its security interests if it means violating the territorial sovereignty of another nation? Does the other nation have a right to respond when it views sovereignty as its primary goal? Well, to answer the latter, obviously yes. Nations still have to pursue their own interests, regardless of whether or not they pursue our own. But that doesn't mean we forsake our own so the Syrian Mukhabarat can fulfill its ends. The United States views security as prime right now, and has a right to fulfill that end, especially when they kill an al-Qaeda commander and were apparently tacitly endorsed in their mission by Syrian government officials.