Posted on 07/07/2007 5:15:43 AM PDT by Fennie
Lebanese sources told a Nazareth newspaper that Syria is planning to evacuate its citizins from Lebanon and close the border by mid-month, Israel Radio reported Saturday. Syria had advised students in Lebanon that it would facilitate their return to Syria, and the continuation of their studies there. Syrian Minister for Higher Education said the move was aimed to ensure the students safety.
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hmmm...
Hmmmmm, indeed.
Gonna be a long, hot summer.
Coming soon, Lebanon to be Hizbullahstan, be prepared.
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somethings up
How can we miss you, if you won’t go away?
If the Syrians were anticipating an Isreal-Hezbullah dust up, it would be in the interest of the dictators in Damascus to get a few Syrian students killed in the crossfire.
That’s why I’m betting on a Syrian invasion, disguised as a “rescue” from the Israelis.
“the Committees for the Liberation of the Golan Heights, a Hezbollah-like guerrilla organization Baath party sources claim was formed in Syria to attack Israeli positions in the Golan.”
“...formed in Syria” with advice, support and instruction from the Iranian regime.
Syrian maneuver in Lebtucky doesn’t have to mean the end of the world.
Probably even more signiicant will be western reaction to same, should it occur.
Leb fights them off, hmmm interesting, wouldn’t have guessed that.
US lays down the law, different story. That would tell me the US is ready, even eager for a confrontation.
The way I see it, it could be at least TEOTWAKI, the end of the world as we know it. Here's how I see it could play out:
Syria re-invades Lebanon, citing the turmoil between Hezbollah and Lebanese forces as the ostensible reason, but for a host of unstated reasons. Among them - hampering the Lebanese army's attempt to reign in Hezbollah, putting an end to the UN tribunal trying Syria in essence for the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, and the desire to act as Iran's proxy in instigating a general war involving Israel, the US and Iran.
In response, the US, which has been aiding Lebanese forces in regaining control of their country, recognizes that Lebanon is too weak to repel a full Syrian assault and invades Syria from Iraq. It's actually a two-fer, since we can also take out their insurgent training camps and their cross-border weapons transfer infrastructure.
Iran launches a surprise retaliatory attack on US forces in Iraq - citing their obligations under the recently signed Iran-Syria Mutual Defense Pact. The US and Iran then get what both have been itching for, for years. Total war. We then have justification to take out their nuke sites. Iran gets their apocalyptic war to bring back the 12th Mahdi. We launch air attacks on nuke sites. Iran retaliates with WMD bio attacks in the US. Global jihad is instigated by Iran. Full religious war breaks out in Europe, Asia and the US.
TEOTWAKI, in any literal sense of the term.
And what will be the name of that battle?
You forgot Chinese ICBM’s launched to protect Iran’s new oil-ex partner. Hmm which side will Russia jump in on?
Possible?
Mathematically.
Likely?
No.
No need to invade Syria, there’s nothing there.
Head of the snake is 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
If Iran uses WMD it simplifies our options.
Conventionally, they can’t project force longer than 90 days before folding up like a house of cards.
Won’t be fun, but not the end of the world.
Lot’s funner than Iran with nukes too.
I think Aegis can take Silkworms, and even a few new toys too. Air/air’s a walk. Long way from Amarah to Baghdad, and most of the world hasn’t even figured out the JSOW “pause” during OIF yet.
Biggest problem is the Strait. I see a new era in “suppression”, or else Iran getting...smaller.
I wonder if we will EMP them to kill the electronics? Cant fire missles if they all have dead boards.
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Inverse square law works against you, unless you blanket all of Iran, and then you get spill over into surrounding countries.
Shielded units might not see the induced voltages necessary to damage the boards, and there’s an issue with short conductors not experiencing the field gradients necessary for high voltage.
Finally, there’s the whole political thing if you’re using high energy weapons to pump the pulse.
Not to worry. Many of Aegis’ limitations, limited missile magazines, active/passive issues, etc., seem to have been addressed.
Labanon II.
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