Posted on 12/24/2004 8:59:38 PM PST by Stoat
Syria has a ticket to ride. Perhaps we should let them climb aboard. Get ready to R U M B L E...
Perhaps we should put 25k troops on Syria's border fully equipped and see if they get religion.
On the other hand, perhaps a couple of hundred reminders of what cruise missiles can do would be more effective.
Syria is in need of a good slapdown. Has been since the 60s when those hijacked planes wound up in Damascus. And then there was the terrorist training camps.
Actually, we should let Israel do the honors, and then we join up after the New Year, giving our guys some R&R while the IDF explores their newfound territory. This stuff has gone on long enough...
Excellent opportunity for Rangers/SOFs backed by tactical air.
This is why we should get out of Iraq as soon as possible.
There are more rats' nests in the area in need of extermination.
Nah. Why leave a perfectly good, developed base of ops behind, for the Hadjis to usurp?
I bet the troops there would be happy to just leave the bases to the Iraqis, if it meant they could go whack rug-pilots in Syria instead of sitting around Iraq...
Well, there IS that...
From what I have been told, Cruise Missiles are crap. Seems a few MOABs and carpet bombing would be much more convincing. IMOHO
Ping
Merry Christmas to all of you.
Sanctions never work. This calls for more serious action.
These must be those foreign troops Putin was itching about last week. (NOT)
You're right, some serious mushrooms over Damned-mascus might wake them up!!!
Lets not forget the slaughter they did in Beirut when they invaded and demanded Islamic rules there, too.
One of Ronald Reagan's biggest failures was to stop Israel from wiping out the PLO.
We need Iraq for a staging area. Enemies on the West and East while there.
I'd love to see Israel take Syria to task for it's support of the Hezballa and other terrorist groups, that have attacked it for decades. Israel is such a super-charged topic for the middle-east, I think it would set back our efforts decades if we were seen to support this.
IF the world saw the middle-east clearly, understood the dynamics as we do, I'd be more inclined to agree with you. Europe thinks Israel is the bad guy. Russia has been a long time ally of Syria. Each of these factions would support the theory in the middle-east, that the U.S. had been fronting for Israel all along.
Right now we have fairly friendly contacts with a number of the governments in the region. If we were to advocate Israel taking military action, that would probably end immediately. We'd wind up against the world, with Israel taking massive amounts of blame.
Would this be justified? Heck no. Israel would be giving pay-back for decades of dead bodies piling up inside their borders. (in effect) Sadly, unconcionably, incredibly, the memory of Syrian support for Israel's attackers would evaporate the moment the first shot was fired.
I don't know what the cure for this is. I guess we're stuck doing the heavy lifting, which is actually very favorable for Israel. Right now we have a justified reason to be doing it, after being attacked. And if we can bring peace and prosperity to Iraq, perhaps things will look up over-all for the middle-east.
Do I agree with your sentiment? Yes. I just think we'd both be mistaken to back what we desire to se.
Agreed.
Laser guideds would be fine with me. Carpet bombing would be fine if forward bases were spotted, or terrorist training camps were. Otherwise I'd rather send a message right now, rather than open up a full fledged military campaign.
yeah, very true. . . one can hope on Christmas that Europe would see things clearly! haha...
And one can take a whiz upwind, both of which leave you with about the same warm feeling these days.
All the best to you and your family.
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