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2006-10-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Debka: Syria and Iran Plan Pre-emptive Attack On Israel To Prevent US Strike
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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-08 11:30|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Not that different from their strategy in the 67 Six Day war, which Israel came close to losing.
Posted by lotp 2006-10-08 11:47||   2006-10-08 11:47|| Front Page Top

#2 hmmmmm - how many bombers and fighters are based in the airbases in western Iraq?
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-08 11:59||   2006-10-08 11:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Stealth bombers out of Whiteman could be there in what, 10 - 12 hours?
Posted by RJB in JC MO 2006-10-08 12:16||   2006-10-08 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Both are seriously looking at a Syrian attack on the Golan which would escalate into a full-blown Syrian-Israeli war and a second Hizballah assault from Lebanon.

Someone had better tell the UNFIL soldiers and those Russian platoons that things might get a little hot in no time at all. Should Syria's little stunt come to pass, Israel had better find the gumption to start blowing away huge chunks of Lebanon and Syria. Any failure of resolve could prove deadly instead of just crippling, as it did last time. When push actually comes to shove, underestimating America's determination is often a fatal error and we had best be ready to drive this point home to Damascus and Tehran.

Iran, Syria and Hizballah would not be averse to disrupting the American Iraq timeline by attacking Israel and putting the Bush administration on the spot, forced to address three warfronts simultaneously.

Our military must finally evolve away from ground based conflict and get used to the notion of merely dropping in to break a whole lot of shit without any infantry backup. If they can just get over this fixation, we would have no problem blowing Iran and Syria straight to hell for their collective misdeeds.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-08 12:42||   2006-10-08 12:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Zenster:

Today's WaPo has an interesting piece on how the Hezbo leadership misjudged Israel's reaction to the unprovoked murder and kidnapping incident that sparked the recent war.

Very clear that not only the Hezbos miscalculated, but so too did the Israelis, who failed to push quickly to secure border towns that were inadequately defended by Hezbo fighters in the first week of hostilities.

Hopefully, if Syria and Iran actually attempt to carry out such madness, Israel (and the US) will go for broke and leave these two miscreant nations in shattered ruins.

"In speeches and iconography, Hezbollah has cast the war as a "divine victory." But a reconstruction of the period before and soon after the seizure of the soldiers reveals a series of miscalculations on the part of the 24-year-old movement that defies its carefully cultivated reputation for planning and caution. Hezbollah's leadership sometimes waited days to evacuate the poor, densely populated neighborhood in southern Beirut that is its stronghold. Only as Israeli warplanes began reducing the headquarters to rubble did they realize the scope of what the Israeli military intended. Hezbollah fighters were still planning to train in Iran the very month that the soldiers were seized; Hezbollah leaders in Beirut had assured Lebanese officials of a relatively uneventful summer.

In addition, Lebanese analysts say Israeli hesitation in the early part of the war allowed Hezbollah, caught off guard, time to prepare its defenses. By the time Israeli troops entered in force, more than a week later, Hezbollah's men were in place in villages like Aita al-Shaab. "--Inside Hezbollah, Big Miscalculations
Militia Leaders Caught Off Guard By Scope of Israel's Response in War

By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, October 8, 2006; Page A01
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-10-08 13:22|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]  2006-10-08 13:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's the link: Hezbollah, Big Miscalculations
Militia Leaders Caught Off Guard By Scope of Israel's Response in War
Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-10-08 13:24|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com/HomePage.asp]  2006-10-08 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 it's a post as well....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-08 13:35||   2006-10-08 13:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The situation near the Israelian, Lebanese border has become very difficult now. As "Kofi da Comedian" has deployed his mulinational force in that area. The peace loving hizbollah protecting UN forces will be caught right in the middle. Maybe Syia's commando's will have to wear blue helmets during their operations.
Posted by Unereck Creatle7408 2006-10-08 13:48||   2006-10-08 13:48|| Front Page Top

#9 There is no scenario in which an attack on Israel by Iran and Syria, would be met with conventional weapons. Sunnis are all but begging the US to neutralize the Shiite threat. Crushing the Baathist and Ayatollah tyrannies is not worth the loss of a single US or Israeli soldier. We cheapen our own lives by valuing the lives of terrorists.
Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-10-08 14:49||   2006-10-08 14:49|| Front Page Top

#10 There is no scenario in which an attack on Israel by Iran and Syria, would be met with conventional weapons.

Sheesh, Snease.
Posted by .com 2006-10-08 15:04||   2006-10-08 15:04|| Front Page Top

#11 Gesundheit!
Posted by Bobby 2006-10-08 15:10||   2006-10-08 15:10|| Front Page Top

#12 There is no scenario in which an attack on Israel by Iran and Syria, would be met with conventional weapons.

Bullshit. We do not need to deploy nuclear weapons against Iran and their use against Syria would be hunting rabbits with a Howitzer. Israel most certainly will not make any first use of nuclear weapons.

Sunnis are all but begging the US to neutralize the Shiite threat. Crushing the Baathist and Ayatollah tyrannies is not worth the loss of a single US or Israeli soldier.

And your point is?

For the umpteenth time, we don't need to occupy these two-bit Muslim shitholes with troops. We can dismantle them from the air with JDAMs or use a wave of cruise missiles to completely devastate either foe.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-08 15:42||   2006-10-08 15:42|| Front Page Top

#13 I will remind people of the article within the past 3 weeks that commented on the fact that the Israelis were using expensive air transport to bring all the JDAMs and other precision munitions straight into Israel from the depots in the US. The Israelis got permission because of the Hib'allah war to buy a LOT more of those weapons, and the US sold those to them from on-hand stores.
They also got permission to get a whole lot more of the nasty ole cluster bombs for aircraft, and the cluster rockets for the MLRS units. The pros in the Israeli military and intelligence have been working around Olmert to defend their homeland from what is being seen as an inevitable mass Arab assault utilizing troops from Syria, Hizb'allah, and Hamas in a three prong/three front war : the Golan Heights, Southern Lebanon, and the Gaza/West Bank zones. The Iranians need the West to blink or pullback so they can get their "A-Bomb for Allah" completed, and they seem to be spending the money, the time, the equipment, and the political capital to set up this war as a diversion or even a Tet-style propoganda victory.
Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-10-08 17:13||   2006-10-08 17:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Excellent post, Shieldwolf.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-08 17:25||   2006-10-08 17:25|| Front Page Top

#15 Does anyone think any move by Asshat or the Mullahs is not well known in advance by the Russians ? Why did they bring a company of Muslim Chechneyans into Lebanon ? They could well lead the Hezb attack, no ? The French ? Probably frog legs for dinner.
Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-08 19:22||   2006-10-08 19:22|| Front Page Top

#16 Why did they bring a company of Muslim Chechneyans into Lebanon ?

Strictly pro-Muslim PR.

They could well lead the Hezb attack, no ?

I'm confident that RasPutin would prefer the mask not be torn off quite so soon.

The French ? Probably frog legs for dinner.

In their military capacity, the French are more properly referred to as escargot.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-08 19:27||   2006-10-08 19:27|| Front Page Top

#17 Thank you, Shieldwolf. That's very helpful information. May God keep his hand over Israel, and may they never never need it.
Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-08 20:14||   2006-10-08 20:14|| Front Page Top

#18 Sunnis are all but begging the US to neutralize the Shiite threat.

You've been beating this pro-Sunni drum for weeks. Give it a rest.
Posted by Pappy 2006-10-08 21:11||   2006-10-08 21:11|| Front Page Top

#19 Heh, Pappy - and when asked for an explanation for vague or silly assertions, none are ever given. That's not the RB way, that's the troll way.
Posted by .com 2006-10-08 21:37||   2006-10-08 21:37|| Front Page Top

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