[CatoRenasci]

Whatever the problems in Iraq, Saddam is in the calaboose and his brats are dead. Surely Assad can see his alternatives as death or cooperation with the US if they're put that starkly. I can't imagine too many of the scum running Syria really wants to see a US/Israeli combined arms offensive which takes out first Syria's air defenses and air force, then its army. Where could they go? What ground could they defend if the Israelis moved from the West from Golan and a couple of American armored divisions moved from the East. The Jordanians would lie low, interning any Syrians fleeing across the border, and the Turks would probably do likewise, or perhaps they could be bribed into a third front. I would not want to be Assad if the US gets serious about eliminating Syria as a source of Islamofascist fighters in Iraq. Would the Iranians come in? On their border with Iraq? Possible, but we need to make it very clear to the Iranians that will invoke a strategic weapons response.