Make Love Not Kerfuffle!

I think I have much better understanding of the problems in the Middle East now that I've just finished reading a mind-blowing article posted on the Times Online titled Israel Plans for War with Iran and Syria.
Reportedly NOT stinging from their failure to free the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers or dislodge Hezbollah from Southern Lebanon, Israel has decided to set their sights a little higher. According to the reporters, Israel has figured out that too MUCH attention has been paid to the lowly Palestinaians in the West Bank and Gaza and not enough on Syria and Iran...Let's walk through the madness slowly.

“In the past we prepared for a possible military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities,” said one insider, “but Iran’s growing confidence after the war in Lebanon means we have to prepare for a full-scale war, in which Syria will be an important player.”

Translation: Our failed military incursion into Lebanon has encouraged the Iranians (who have a military assistance pact with Syria)

So what do the Americans think?

“Fixed targets (In Iran) are hopelessly vulnerable to precision bombing, and with stealth bombers even a robust air defence system doesn’t make much difference,” said Richard Perle, a leading neoconservative.

Whoa! They're quoting noted neo-con and famous Iraq War cheerleader Richard Perle?

Perle goes on

“If they had acted against Syria during this last kerfuffle, the war might have ended more quickly and better,” Perle added. “Syrian military installations are sitting ducks and the Syrian air force could have been destroyed on the ground in a couple of days.”

Hm, so...the leading nutcase who got us into Iraq thinks it'll be easy to hit the 'sitting ducks' in Iran and Syria in spite of the Israeli failure to do so in the last 'kerfuffle' (Kerfuffle is really a word whose synonyms are: disturbance, stir, commotion, to-do, and the ever popular hoo-hah. This explains how it's so easy for these mutton heads to send people into combat...pardon me...kerfuffles)

This is my favorite

The Israelis are integrating three elite brigades that performed well during the Lebanon war under one headquarters, so they can work together on deep cross-border operations in Iran and Syria.

What border does Israel share with Iran? Some politicos (State Department) are apparently arguing for 'diplomacy' with Syria in the hopes of A) peeling Syria away from Iran or B) causing internal problems for Syria which would result in waves of Islamic terror generated against the stable dictatorship.

This would all sound nuts if it wasn't true...So if the Israeli plan works it would have Israel bombing (and/or) invading Syria and Iran with US help...so we'd have Iraq, Syria, Iran, Afganistan and Lebanaon all in play at the same time with a Saudi Arabia facing a serious threat of homemade terrorism (let's not forget Osama Bin Laden's original beef was with the Saudi government)...

I feel safer already.
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