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2007-06-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by anonymous5089 2007-06-04 06:35|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Assad, with Russian and Iranian support, and without US opposition, can probably defeat Israel. But given the US position on his eastern border, the timing may not yet be quite right. He will probably just maneuver and posture until either the US pulls out of Iraq or the Dems assume full control over the Defense Department, whichever comes first. He can wait a few months.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-04 07:40|| 2007-06-04 07:40|| Front Page Top

#2 That's probably what Queen Nancy told him during her trip there.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-06-04 08:05|| 2007-06-04 08:05|| Front Page Top

#3 If worse comes to worse, Israel can uncork the big firecrackers. In fact I hope they irradiate the crap out of Syria, World Opinion™ be damned.

Way past time to turn a few hundred million Arabs into cinders.

Posted by Natural Law 2007-06-04 08:50|| 2007-06-04 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Natural:
I don't think they'll do it. Not anymore. I don't see enough anger in their leadership to actually condemn Jews to vilification for all history - everybody in the West wants to be a 'victim' today, rather than a victor. That is being arranged.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-04 08:56|| 2007-06-04 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 GM - Agree on the lack of passion in Israeli government, but the Jews are already vilified and have been for all of history. Being scheduled for execution clears the mind wondrously.

Posted by SR-71 2007-06-04 09:28|| 2007-06-04 09:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Better to be vilified than dead, but I don't think the nukes will come out unless the rest of the Islamic world piles on and the US sits on its hands. In that case, Damascus, Cairo, Amman, and perhaps Teheran will sport interesting cloud formations.

Posted by RWV 2007-06-04 10:11|| 2007-06-04 10:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Not Cairo - Aswan. Israel thanks the USSR for that Sword of Damocles over Egypt's head.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-06-04 10:40|| 2007-06-04 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 I hope Assad is dumb enough to try this quickly. But I fear he is waiting until a dhimocrat takes over in '08.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-04 10:57|| 2007-06-04 10:57|| Front Page Top

#9 Nope. Mecca. Tell Agmediunajead that one false move and Mecca gets it.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-04 12:38|| 2007-06-04 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Assad, with Russian and Iranian support, and without US opposition, can probably defeat Israel I agree if you mean defeat as in the Hezbollah vs Israel fight last summer. I disagree whole-heartedly if you mean defeat as in removed from the map. The Israeli army, on defense, would make short work of a Syrian incursion. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Kurdish uprising in parts of Syria while the military was gone and being hammered as well (along with a dozen other large minorities kept underheal by Assad's people).

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-06-04 14:11|| 2007-06-04 14:11|| Front Page Top

#11 In Yom Kippur it took both super powers working in concert to save Egypt. There is no more SovU and Israeli leaders are a lot less naive these days (no longer believe that peace with Arabs is possible). And Lebanon#2 got us thinking in right direction. If Syria uses its terrorist weapons against Israeli cities, then---when the dust settles---there might still be Syria but its 5% ruling Alawite minority will be gone.

p.s. Compared to Dybua, Olmert is a paragon of decisiveness & intelligence. The only thing he did wrong is trust Halutz.

Posted by gromgoru 2007-06-04 15:44|| 2007-06-04 15:44|| Front Page Top

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