I am reading "The Virtues of War" about Alexander the Great. His geographical analysis of Syria was about the same as yours but he said the east cavalry country not tank country.
Tank country is exactly how I'd call it, and we're sitting on half of it. I took this from the TC side of a gunvee during a drive along the Syrian border. The loc is due west of Sinjar villiage, which is the last Iraqi town before the border on the road to Mosul. Beyond the road is a seven foot earthen berm, ostensibly to stop smugglers.
This pic was taken on a hill at the end of a small mountain range. Pretty much everything beyond this point leading into Syria is as flat as can be.
True, but we'd be coming in from the West via Iraq...or Israel would be coming in from the South via Lebanon (which is ripe for the taking right now).
That being said, a *leaked* story to the liberal Washington Post by unnamed military "sources" reaks of our traitorous CIA repeating again the anti-Iran stories that they ran just before we invaded Iraq...i.e., the CIA tried to confuse us, tried to divert our attention, etc.
In this case, Iran is abou to have the Bomb...yet suddenly we start seeing Intel on Syria stirring up trouble.
do we really want to waste time and resources putting down Syria in the West when Iran in the East is the problem?!
Heavens no! And for that reason, this new anonymous leak to the Washington Post is doubly suspicious. Syria doesn't have the Bomb. Syria isn't about to get the Bomb, either (unless it cares to make us mad enough to do some American nuclear testing there).
But here goes the Washington Post "whisper" campaign. Suddenly Syria is the bad guy. Oh no, don't look at Iran building the Bomb, squeals the 3 little pigs at the WaPost. Don't fret about the oil for food scandal at our precious UN, they plead. No, they cry...Syria is your new badman. Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket, it's Syria. We've just "got" to hit Syria right now, they demand.
Color me suspicious.