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To: James Calladine who wrote (73943)7/23/2006 12:21:31 PM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361492
 
>>On the eve of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Jerusalem, senior officials believe Israel has received American approval to continue operations against Hezbollah at least until next Sunday.<<

Get real Calladine. A new strategy is on the way, one where a vast infrastructure and logistic space is destroyed across the borders of the nation - see today's Iraq and Lebanon. Now, the only remaining undamaged infrastructure and logistic space is Syria. Devastate Syria and Israel has, for the first time in its history, a wasteland all around it.

If Syria is destroyed, the wasteland will reach from the Mediterranean all the way to the Persian Gulf and to the borders of Saudi Arabia. If this is achieved, Israel can then sweep this vast area with its Air Force. If Syria is militarily destroyed over the next year or so, Israel will stand geo-strategically "safe" for the first time in its short history. Iran, which is by its own words the sworn enemy of Israel, will be facing an approach march across a wasted Iraq of more than a thousand miles. Israel will see it coming - and act.

If such a strategic outcome entailing the destruction of Syria and making it part of the wasteland can be reached this year or next, the US Armed Forces can indeed retreat claiming mission accomplished.




To: James Calladine who wrote (73943)7/23/2006 12:54:08 PM
From: Rarebird  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 361492
 
>>Israel has received American approval to continue operations against Hezbollah at least until next Sunday.<<

The probability that Israel decided to act on its own is clearly observable from the facts now on the ground in Lebanon. The Bush Administration, from the Executive Branch to the State Department, was caught unprepared to deal with the necessary, urgent evacuation of Americans from Lebanon.

US Middle East Policy is made in Tel Aviv.