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.
Can't buy that. It's not a credible analysis. It's possible to imagine a war with Syria at some point in the future, I suppose, but American troops in two Arab capitals at once, Baghdad and Damascus, would be stupidly excessive.
Besides Syria would NEVER leave Lebanon on their own accord, even if they were credibly threatened by invasion from Iraq. Syria essentially has no economy. Lebanon IS their economy. It provides the perks, payoffs, sinecures, and etc which are essential to reward and retain the supporters of any authoritarian government.
The withdrawal from Lebanon presents an existential threat to the Syrian government nearly as great in the long run as a war with Iraq and the Americans, and gives them fewer (not more) options in dealing with such a war if it does occur. After all the fielding of a few divisions more or less won't make any difference in facing the American military; but financial resources, the ability to stir up trouble elsewhere in the region, and the ready availability of proxy warriors like Hezbollah, might.
I could've sworn I saw a news article somewhere a few days ago about Syrian troops working with the US on the border issue. But it would be very nice if you were right.