[Joe Boucher]

While Syria is definately a beligerant, isn't Iran a much bigger prize? Many more people and much more oil and a populace that is ripe and ready to overthrow their oppressive Mullahs? Also Iran has a much younger and better educated populace. Just a thought. Though I would like to see both regeims taken out and then on to Saudi.

[archy]

While Syria is definately a beligerant, isn't Iran a much bigger prize? Many more people and much more oil and a populace that is ripe and ready to overthrow their oppressive Mullahs? Also Iran has a much younger and better educated populace.

And a mutual defence treaty with the Soviet Union that allows the Russians to respond within Iranian borders with or without an Iranian request to do so in the event of an invasion.

I don't know if or how the dissolution of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact affects the treaty. But it may still be in force, and would likely be a major consideration, just as unthinkable as an invasionby the Russians of Canada.

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