[AndyTheBear]

You have a good point. But it might well have been a surprise if the war continued across the border to Syria.

[Dog Gone]

Boy, crossing the border into Syria would have been a hard sell. I'm sure we would have lost British support for that, and all our other allies.

We made no case for doing that, and even these vague reports of convoys of "stuff" from Iraq to Syria aren't terribly convincing, even to me.

There's just no way to conquer and change the entire Middle East. We have our hands full with Iraq, and those people wanted to be liberated. I'm not sure that's the case with Syria.