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2005-03-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-03-15 12:09:06 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Unlike some of the previous anti-Syrian protests, security forces did not attempt to block demonstrators or hinder their movement

That's it then. Syria's only remaining choice is the Hama Option, a massacre, but this time with the whole world watching. And Bashir al-Assad is not the man his father was. Oh, to be a fly on the wall in the Syrian halls of power today!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-03-15 7:03:37 AM|| 2005-03-15 7:03:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 other option - head for the exits, while planting as many undercover leavebehinds as possible, esp in the ranks of Hezbollah. Q - can Baby Assad tell the Syrian establishment enough about that to make it not look like a total loss, while still preserviving operational security?

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-03-15 9:19:23 AM|| 2005-03-15 9:19:23 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder if Hez is going to be forced to redeploy some of its forces away from the border towards the population center.... leaving a partial vaccuum in South Lebannon.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-15 10:33:48 AM|| 2005-03-15 10:33:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 James Lileks came up with a decent analogy for Assad:

...Imagine youâre Tony Soprano. You own New Jersey and you occupy Manhattan. Then Canada â f*ckinâ Canada! â comes over and takes out the family what owns Connecticut, okay, and now they got a whole fâckinâ army in New Rochelle and ships ân sh*t off the coast, okay, and you got everyone in Manattân showinâ up in Times Square bitchinâ and boo-hooinâ about oh I ainât got no freedom ân sh*t, and if you donât get out itâs a big bomb dropped on the Bada Bing. Whaddya do?

You get the boys together and you tell them youâre going to concentrate on the Jersey side of the business. Any questions? No, T. Sounds great, T.

But thereâs one or two guys in the back who give you that hard look, and thatâs what keeps you up at night.

Posted by Pappy 2005-03-15 12:48:29 PM|| 2005-03-15 12:48:29 PM|| Front Page Top

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