[baseball_fan]

is this the "likeliest scenario" as the author says? is it one reason we want to talk to Syria first? what would winning look like?

[GSlob]

barbari sunt, barbarice egit.

[afnamvet]

that Hezbollah remains the strongest military force in Lebanon and thus capable of keeping the regular army out of the struggle for power.

Thanks go to to the French and the rest of the surrender monkey blue helmeted eunuchs of the [READ: worthless] U.N. for this situation.

[WhiteGuy]

Possibilities of war in the Middle East

and that which is going on now??????

this is called what?


peace?

[Doctor Don]

Bombs away on Damascus!

[The Drowning Witch]

A coup d'etat, indeed.....

[He Rides A White Horse]

Syria has been a thorn in the side for way too long.

[Question_Assumptions]

Nuclear exchange. Between Israel and Iran. Probably before the end of the decade. Unless the world gets the guts to stop Iran from developing and using nukes.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Possibilities of war in the Middle East

Syria has been a thorn in the side for long enough; sometimes you have to forget nation building' after conquest'........with some countries, chopping down every thing green and salting the earth is much, much less expensive.

[Porterville]

Since when hasn't there been war in the Mid East? Seriously?

[Billthedrill]

With the UN investigation on the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri complete, Syria faces a Hobson's choice. If Bashar Al Assad cooperates with the UN, he would not only weaken his regime but might also face personal legal complications to say the least. On the other hand, if he decides to defy the UN on that issue as well, he would make it impossible for people such as Djerdjian and Kimche to sing their songs in his favour.

Assad is expendable; in fact, a pattern of coup d'etat in the area need not be limited to Lebanon at all but might easily start in Damascus. What is holding that back is the prospect of a majority Sunni government taking his place incorporating members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood. An accommodation between them and the Iranians might mean Assad's days are numbered. That and a simultaneous overthrow of the Lebanese government might well mean a Lebanese civil war ended by another Syrian occupation, this time supported heavily by Iran.

That would face the Israelis with not one but two overtly hostile countries to the north. It would also be a tremendous stride forward for Shi'ite control of radical Islam. Iranian nuclear weapons based in their home country are yet incapable of reliable accuracy on Israel. From Syria or even the Bekaa valley the problem would be considerably easier.

[reagan_fanatic]

War with Syria and Iran is inevitable - it's just a question of timing and readiness. The question is when, not if.

[arthurus]

Why are the Maronites siding with Hezbollah???