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You know, funny thing about interdiction. Everyone is jumping up and down about the Iranians. However, the chief victim of our new strategy will be the Boy President in Damascus. If we start cross border raids, expect him to start soiling his underwear and become a lot more amenable to Condi when she shows up in Damascus.

I suspect the real, unwritten target of the new strategy is Damascus, the Weak Link. Basically, it's Jim Baker's idea without the baleful tactics of going hat in hand to the Boy President with a begging bowl. Split Damascus from Tehran and you isolate the Persians from the West.

Suppose a Syrian armored company turns into a smoking ruin in the middle of the Syrian desert. Changes minds, non?

Mais oui!

Be Seeing You,

Chris