[Coop]

Interesting stuff, from AP no less.

[patton]

al-bakah

[Boot Hill]

They're really ramping up the pressure on Syria and from both the west and the east; it will be interesting to see how this plays out and whether our strategy will take a military, diplomatic or spec ops form.

Iran needs Syria to remain intact to take heat off themselves, or at least to spread it about the region, so I would expect Iran to ratchet up the pucker factor with some sort of statement to the effect that an attack on their ally Syria will be treated as an attack on Iran.

--Boot Hill