Good. I have a feeling that Syria may be "next" after Iraq. We don't have a "hook" like the U.N. resolutions on Iraq, but with all that force in the region, including CIA operatives, we should be able to put some heavy pressure on the pencil-necked Assad whelp. It's a bit too much, probably, to openly call for regime change in Syria, but we can insist on their turning over WMD transferred by Saddam to escape detection by inspectors, and we can pressure them to pull out of Lebanon. Having Abizaid in the picture, with some suitable publicity, might serve to stir up Lebanese ex-pats in favor of liberation.
Threats against Syria could include a campaign by the Whitehouse to publicly highlight their sponsorship of terror orgs, calls for sanctions or other "containment" or "isolating" mechanisms, and the initiation (or ramping up?) of an energetic covert destabilization program.
This is GREAT! An Arabic American general! Those in the Middle East take ethnicity very serious, and to be defeated by an Arab American (Lebanese are Arabic, though often Christian, are they not?) will be terrific for political reasons....and to hear Rummy thinks he's the best fighter too....
I have some Lebanese friends, and these people KNOW what fighting Islamic Arabs is all about....
GOOD DEAL!!!!