From the Associated Press it looks like intelligence officials will brief Congress today with evidence of a Syrian nuclear program that supposedly existed before Israel bombed the facilities back in September of 2007. It is believed the program was built with the assistance of North Korea.

A good deal of the early Democratic primary debates focused on what the candidates saw as a drumbeat to war with Iran. Ms. Clinton took a firm stance toward declaring the nations terrorist and nuclear ambitions a potential threat to the World and Senator Obama advocating a policy of open diplomacy and ending nuclear proliferation. The triangle of Syrian and Iranian influence in Iraq is clear for the administration and the military but at times seems to be questioned by the Democrats. Meanwhile the larger role of China, Russia & North Korea in the region is startling to everyone.

In short, it seems clear that the Republicans will once again run on a platform of pointing out world events and drumming up fear over their potential to harm the nation, leaving Democrats with the choice of either once again running against those fears or finding some kind of new global resolution to many of our foreign policy problems.

Thus far I haven’t heard many wonderful plans from either side in dealing with our foreign policy woes and a nuclear Syria doesn’t lend itself to Obama’s belief that we can rid the world of nuclear weapons or John McCain’s argument that Republicans have made the world safer. Leaving us with the potential for another election cycle with much talk, but little in the way of new ideas or solutions.