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Plans: Next, War on Syria?
Newsweek
Oct. 4 issue - Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says. Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries. (Syria is regarded as a major route for jihadis entering Iraq, and Iran appears to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons.) Even hard-liners acknowledge that given the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, a U.S. attack on either country would be an unlikely last resort; covert action of some kind is the favored route for Washington hard-liners who want regime change in Damascus and Tehran.
?Mark Hosenball
? 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
frankly Iraq has been enough for me. I was a pretty solid supporter of the war, but action against Syria and Iran will start making me drink and start shooting my 30-30 off in the middle of the night. I really see no justifiable source or reason to put money or death into those countries. I understood Iraq, but barely. This excerpt is definitely written by a Liberal, so the truth may lie some where very, very far away, yet with the Bush war machine, it is possible.
please no.
Plans: Next, War on Syria?
Newsweek
Oct. 4 issue - Deep in the Pentagon, admirals and generals are updating plans for possible U.S. military action in Syria and Iran. The Defense Department unit responsible for military planning for the two troublesome countries is "busier than ever," an administration official says. Some Bush advisers characterize the work as merely an effort to revise routine plans the Pentagon maintains for all contingencies in light of the Iraq war. More skittish bureaucrats say the updates are accompanied by a revived campaign by administration conservatives and neocons for more hard-line U.S. policies toward the countries. (Syria is regarded as a major route for jihadis entering Iraq, and Iran appears to be actively pursuing nuclear weapons.) Even hard-liners acknowledge that given the U.S. military commitment in Iraq, a U.S. attack on either country would be an unlikely last resort; covert action of some kind is the favored route for Washington hard-liners who want regime change in Damascus and Tehran.
?Mark Hosenball
? 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
frankly Iraq has been enough for me. I was a pretty solid supporter of the war, but action against Syria and Iran will start making me drink and start shooting my 30-30 off in the middle of the night. I really see no justifiable source or reason to put money or death into those countries. I understood Iraq, but barely. This excerpt is definitely written by a Liberal, so the truth may lie some where very, very far away, yet with the Bush war machine, it is possible.
please no.
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