"Dissuading Syria calls for a more elegant solution."
like giving them some more money and being reawy reawy nice to them?
nonsense.
The more elegant, the better...but until I hear what specific actions "elegant" means, it is simply a nice warm and fuzzy term, with no meaning in the real world. Syria needs to seal its border or the Iraqis and the COalition forces will do it for them.