Doomstone
12-27-2003, 08:47 PM
Link (http://exile.ru/181/181022003.html)
I thought this was a pretty interesting read.
Biggest Fizzle: Syria
Remember when everybody was saying "Once we finish with Iraq, Syria's next"? It was back in the Spring of 2003, when we were rolling up Saddam's army like a motel carpet. It was like people were getting off on the war so much they didn't want the party to stop, and the obvious move was to barge in next door, to Syria.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to Damascus (as a guy named Saul once said): we didn't finish with Iraq, and it doesn't look like we will anytime soon. So the big build-up for an attack on Syria fizzled out. If people had any sense, it'd stay that way. We're already going to spend I-don't-know-how-many zillion bucks making the Iraqis love us at gunpoint, so maybe it's not the time to take on a new fucked-up foster child. But there's a presidential election coming up, and maybe one of the head spinners thinks it's time to grab some more desert. If we ever do take on Syria, it'll be a different kind of fizzle, sort of like Iraq squared. The Syrians are lousy soldiers but real good spies and assassins, which means their army will just dissolve when the M-1s roll in, but then the locals will start timing our street patrols, digging up their buried AKs, and picking off humvees. The only difference is that where Saddam didn't actually have any international terrorist friends, the Syrians do. They're tight with some of the craziest guerrilla armies in Lebanon, and those guys were scary enough to make the Israelis leave town in a hurry.
The Israelis would love for us to take out Syria for them, but then they were all for hitting Iraq too, and look where that got us. The really pitiful thing is that the Israeli government just issued a big report accusing its own intelligence services of overestimating the threat from Iraq, and pretty much admitting that there never was any threat to Israel, let alone the US, from Saddam's fucked-up, isolated country.
Of course there is now. Like the saying goes, we have brought about the very situation we wished to avoid.
I'd suggest you read through some of this guy's previous articles. Good stuff, and his predictions before the Iraq war were spot on.
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I thought this was a pretty interesting read.
Biggest Fizzle: Syria
Remember when everybody was saying "Once we finish with Iraq, Syria's next"? It was back in the Spring of 2003, when we were rolling up Saddam's army like a motel carpet. It was like people were getting off on the war so much they didn't want the party to stop, and the obvious move was to barge in next door, to Syria.
Well, a funny thing happened on the way to Damascus (as a guy named Saul once said): we didn't finish with Iraq, and it doesn't look like we will anytime soon. So the big build-up for an attack on Syria fizzled out. If people had any sense, it'd stay that way. We're already going to spend I-don't-know-how-many zillion bucks making the Iraqis love us at gunpoint, so maybe it's not the time to take on a new fucked-up foster child. But there's a presidential election coming up, and maybe one of the head spinners thinks it's time to grab some more desert. If we ever do take on Syria, it'll be a different kind of fizzle, sort of like Iraq squared. The Syrians are lousy soldiers but real good spies and assassins, which means their army will just dissolve when the M-1s roll in, but then the locals will start timing our street patrols, digging up their buried AKs, and picking off humvees. The only difference is that where Saddam didn't actually have any international terrorist friends, the Syrians do. They're tight with some of the craziest guerrilla armies in Lebanon, and those guys were scary enough to make the Israelis leave town in a hurry.
The Israelis would love for us to take out Syria for them, but then they were all for hitting Iraq too, and look where that got us. The really pitiful thing is that the Israeli government just issued a big report accusing its own intelligence services of overestimating the threat from Iraq, and pretty much admitting that there never was any threat to Israel, let alone the US, from Saddam's fucked-up, isolated country.
Of course there is now. Like the saying goes, we have brought about the very situation we wished to avoid.
I'd suggest you read through some of this guy's previous articles. Good stuff, and his predictions before the Iraq war were spot on.
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