Pray tell, why is it being announced in advance?
No idea why, but the new government is running their own show....perhaps trying to show that they are taking action.....
Maybe that's their tactic. Make a lot of noise, beat the bushes, and see who runs (and see where they run to).
We are very clearly at WAR with SYRIA in the WESTERN region, and IRAQ is going to join us, OFFICIALLY over the next few days or weeks. THEY are going to announce OUR war plans, with SYRIA in stages, and WE are going to wipe out Assad....
Syria is at war with us, and has officially cancelled their so-called diplomatic relations with us, and also pulled their troops from lebanon BECAUSE they are worried we are going to invade from our bases in IRAQ, worse than they are an attack from Israel via the border with Lebanon.
WAR WITH SYRIA is what is going on, and these 'announcements' will be used to introduce the necessity of this war taking place, via IRAQ's political system, rather than ours... initially to softe us up to the idea of taking OUT another muslim terrorist nation.
Afganistan, Iraq, Lebanon, have all three in some measure gotten new governments purged of the radicals. Syria is next. Iran WILL be toppled imo.