Didn't Dennis Kucinich just come back from Syria stating Assad was a beacon of peace in the mideast? You mean he's wrong? This is all so confusing... /shttp://hotair.com/archives/2007/09/10/video-kucinich-dumps-on-bush-for-syrian-tv/
Posted on 09/12/2007 5:49:24 AM PDT by maquiladora
Advisors to Syrian President Bashar Assad are pressuring him to respond to the alleged IAF attack by "landing a blow to an Israeli target," the Kuwait-based Al-Jareeda reported Wednesday. According to the report, Israel targeted long-range missile batteries that were brought to Syria from Iran. The report said five IAF fighter jets carried out the attack.
Israel Radio quoted the Kuwaiti paper to the effect that the group advocating a military response is being spearheaded by Assad's brother in law, who has met in recent days with senior Hizbullah and Hamas officials in an effort to draw up an operation plan.
The Kuwaiti paper also reported that the Syrian army has begun drafting reservists from the armed corps, missile corps and anti-aircraft units, and quoted "sources in the know" who said the draft was a response to Israel raising its level of readiness in the north.
According to a report by The Nazareth-based al-Sinara newspaper Wednesday, the IAF targeted a joint Syrian-Iranian missile base in northern Syria. Reportedly, the Iranian-funded installation was razed to the ground.
The report claimed its information was gleaned from an "Israeli source."
An official in the Bush administration told the New York Times Wednesday that in recent days the IAF has flown over Syria several times in an attempt to gain intelligence on a number of suspected nuclear facilities Israel believes have been sponsored by North Korea.
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Please, may they try something. Be it easy to determine what the desired outcome was to be, executed poorly so that no civilians are killed, so Israel can retaliate and kick their camel ridin’ backsides back a to the stone ages.
John 1:6 Nazareth! Can anything good come from there? Nathanael asked. Come and see, said Philip.
Is there anything that will cause Israel to go all out and defeat Syria? I’m not sure Israel is up for the fight, politically. It makes so much sense to eliminate the Syria/Iran threat.
John 1:46..........
NOBODY remains an adviser to a dictator who does not reflect the views of the dictator.
The Israeli military failed to disable the non-state entity of Hezbollah during last summer's war. They have regrouped and still have thousands of rockets ready to fire against Israel again, and let's not forget, the kidnapped Israeli solider which started all that is still missing. So this Israeli government doesn't have the stomach to face another mess with an enemy with a lot more ability than Hezbollah.
If there's a change in leadership in Israel, then you might see a change in attitude.
Israel is suffering from liberal democrat disease, and it is really scary to see it in a country that literally is on the front line, surrounded by enemies. If the left can cause an endless search for peace with the likes of Syria and Iran, they can undermine any society.
If pushed to the wall, Israel might find the political will to fight back hard (that could occur overnight) -- but military effectiveness doesn't come back so quickly.
So, if pushed to the wall, their existence at stake, ready to fight, but with forces that can't perform as well as they used to -- would Israel use the bomb?
Does Syria really want to get its ass kicked again?
Despite the unctuous Olmert, Israel seems to have brought Syria to the brink of a brisk, shooting war.
Which is a very good thing IMO. Without it, Israel would be eventually doomed to left-wing autocide.
What’s in it for Israel? If they defeat Syria, they just have a lot more whining Arabs on their hands in territory the world won’t let them claim.
Don't need to claim any territory, just turn it into an ash heap and let the surviving rag-heads spend the rest of their miserable lives digging wells and latrines next to each other
Bait Assad now. It time for a stupid move on his part.
Yes they do. But this time they have goodies (Saadam’s weapons and Iranian guns out the kazoo) worth collecting afterwards.
Didn't Dennis Kucinich just come back from Syria stating Assad was a beacon of peace in the mideast? You mean he's wrong? This is all so confusing... /s
Guess they remembered to check under his bed....
Claire I think Syria is the middle east equivalent of Yugoslavia circa 1990. I believe that it is a unified state in name only. The end result of natural historic forces will result in a severely truncated Syria. Or a number of little syrias with the kurds spinning off in the northeast, the allawites in the northwest, the sunnies in a syrian rump state with Damascus as the capital, and the Druze in the south possibly spinning off to lebanon, but most likely gobbled up by Jordan. The glue holding this modern day Yugoslavia together is the al-Assad allawite mafia, and a war with Israel will speed up the natural centrifugal forces. While this unfolding scenario is fraught with unpleasant surprises, it would most likely benefit Israel, Iraq and the West, as a number of little syrias is preferable to one big unstable alawite ruled bully.
Just my humble opinion.
That’s a humble opinion you can be proud of.
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