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I agree with your position. Syria, a terror nation since, forever finally has the chickens finally coming home to roost. In the Middle East, there is a saying that, “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”. All nations in the Middle East except terrible evil and supposedly racist Israel (sarc) are imploding. Syria's Alawites, like Saddam's Baathists are a minority rule. Assad's regime is evil and must fall, the so-called Rebels are more evil as they are radical Muslim nut cases and all the others interfering like Hizbollah are nuttier nut cases all with an agenda in Syria. The bad guys are killing off the bad guys with the assitance of the very bad guys. Either way, the West and Israel lose. Hizbollah will sit on high overlooking Israel's Golan Heights and, like today looking south into Israel from Southern Lebanon. Israel is watching the mess in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Gaza and even tittering Jordan. One thing is for sure, the Israelis learned in the second Lebanon war (2006) that NEXT time, no holding back, they will be going in for the kill as they have been denied time and time again by US administrations and the UN. No more Mr. Nice guy - Israel and Obama will be hard pressed to hold them back in the next round.

Hi Metz, just a slight correction - Assads goons are baathists. The baath party in the Arab world started and still IS the secular alternative. Saddam, Assad, Nasser etc all looked to create some kind of pan-arab mileue that was NOT a caliphate. The alawis like the alevis in turkey are a religious group, supposedly a Shia subgroup but really more esoteric and like a cross between christianity and Islam. Their minority rule can be compared to Sunnis minority rule over Shia in Iraq. Israel and Christendom lose if either side wins. BUT if we have Assad controlling the western part of Syria he will be in continuous conflict with the Sunnis. Then the Shia and allies inpebanon, Syria, Iraq and Iran fight against the Sunnis in Syria, Iraq with their Saudi and Qatari allies. THAT is the outcome we want. Let them be continuously preoccupied with killing each other and they have no time to think of killing Jews or Christians. I increasingly believe Israels posturing is a sign of their support of Syria. Incredible? Yes. Hear me out. By attacking Syria they give Assad bragging rights that the evil joos are out to gerbil and that the Sunnis are closet Zionists. That will lose al-Qaeda quite a bit of support. They won’t lose it alp of course but enough to keep the above Sunni-Shia fight on a constant boil. And THAT is a consummation deeppy to be desired. A better one would be a Christian state of Lebanon but that does not look doable sadly