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2005-09-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Syria denounces Iraq attacks, seeks cooperation with US

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Posted by Fred 2005-09-17 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 My take has simplified, given the long time that has elapsed with this obvious situation. Ignore what they say, both sides, and watch what they do. Syria hasn't done dick to stop jihadis and supplies crossing back and forth across the border. Since pulling out of LebLand they surely have the troops to beef it up, were they inclined. The US has blathered as much about Syrian actions as the IAEA has about "progress" with Iran.

STFU and do something. No. More. Talk. Punishment.

Posted by .com 2005-09-17 00:18|| 2005-09-17 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I agree that Assad hasn't done much other than look innocent and say "Who me?". Coalition forces, however, are working closer and closer to the Syrian border with increasingly effective particpation from the Iraqis. My take is that in the near future, the good guys will be straying across the Syrian border. Must be those cheap imported GPS units! Little Assad will eventually realize that being unhelpful in the Rumsfeldian sense is not a good thing.

Posted by SteveS 2005-09-17 02:03|| 2005-09-17 02:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Z-man isn't a stable commodity. He appears to lash out against the 'world' when things are not going his way. Keep hammering him and his buds on our side of the Iraq border while letting slip little bits of info that imply Syrian authorities are playing a double sided game leting the Coalition know who, what, when, where. Soon you'll start hearing 'booming' in Damascus. Create an environment exploiting the Z-man's paranoid behavior and he'll become a much more real threat to Asad than State Department threats.

Posted by Clerese Ebbinetch6838 2005-09-17 09:39|| 2005-09-17 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe we should train-up a couple of squadrons of F-16,F15 Iraqi pilots and point the west.

Posted by raptor 2005-09-17 14:06|| 2005-09-17 14:06|| Front Page Top

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