They will get involved deeper since they are Iran's little butt boys...and may be stupid enough to use Saddam's WMD ..... Israel respond in kind, they've already stated so as a matter of policy...If any nation uses WMD against Israel they will immediately respond "accordingly" (nuclear).
The Arab mentality is emboldened by their enemies weakness....Israels response has been weak to this point.... They haven't committed the necessary ground troops to effectively destroy Hezbollah.....
As aeriel bombing mistakes are inevitable, public opinion in the Arab world has changed from lackluster disdain of Hezbollah to vibrant support.
You can't defeat them from the air, you can degrade their capability but ultimately ground troops are needed.
You will see Syrian troops soon commit to support Hezbollah troops in southern Israel. This will happen within the week at the urging of Iran...overt material and logistic support at first, then regular troops...
This is all aimed at circumstances orchestrated by Iran for the August 22nd date. They will gladly sacrifice their Syrian puppet......
Iran has a strategic alliance with North Korea....North Korea has nuclear weapons and have helped the Iranian program.
To serve their means, it would not be an unreasonable stretch to assume that NK directly supplied Iran with several nuclear weapons or enough fissionable material for Iran to fashion their own.
What would Iran do with these weapons? Hezbollah terrorists smuggle several into this country to simultaneously set off in major US cities.... who would we hit in retaliation with nuclear weapons? Lebanon?
Not with Israel so close. Suppose they set off the weapons in the US and hit Bagdad and key middle-east US cities....Our military capability would be severely degraded. Couple that with overseas oil supplies drying up and our ability to conduct conventional war is severely degraded. Don't forget Hugo Chavez whose country supplies a large portion of our refined oil and is now Iran's favorite little butt boy.....
Evil forces are converging on the US and Israel. Russia and China would benefit, Europe would hide under their bed...
This is going to be ugly...
Were it not for civilians that would inevitably be involved, one way to beat these guys may be to draw them into a war by acting weak and then kicking their heathen selves straight to the front of Satan's line.
I was talking to a friend today who offered that the Arabs have never in their history fought a traditional war. Even back in the 4th century, they fought in small units and made hit and run strikes.
I think the key is in your opening. Israel will respond in kind as we would if nulear or other WMDs are used against us.
I don't think Iran has nuclear weapons, nor does NK but Syria undoubtedly has WMDs. Probably, nerve gas etc.
When you hear that our forces are on high alert you know something is up.
"Evil forces are converging on the US and Israel. Russia and China would benefit, Europe would hide under their bed...
This is going to be ugly..."
Good analysis of NK probably supplying Iran, Syria being puppeted etc and the tie in with Russia/China. The USA is countering the superpowers moves by arming Japan, Taiwan, Poland etc. We have a real need to unbury our head out of the sand and take countermeasures to the economic & proxy war waged from China and building our own alternative energy supply to counter Russia's global energy influence. Will these things happen? Probably not. Our countries leadership is about personal power & greed first and America 2nd.