Syria could be next...

Well, I was wrong. The next target of the United States military might is NOT going to be Iran. It seems as if there is a place on earth that is causing us even more headaches than the ayatollahs in Tehran...

Barbara Lerner in her article Setting Sights on Syria makes a case for the USA to invade Syria. Well, maybe not invade, but perhaps flex a little military muscle in their general direction...

It is no secret to anyone who's been watching the international scene for the past three decades or so that Syria is the #1 hotspot for the recruitment, arming and training of all sorts of terrorists. Just ask anyone who lives in Israel.

There is good reason to believe that Syria is also helping out with the car bombings and terror incidents that are a daily part of life in Iraq. If we want to "drain the swamp" of terrorism, it does little good to send forces into Afghanistan and Iraq and leave places like Syria and Iran untouched. (There's other non-military ways that we are dealing with other hotbeds of fantaticism like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt...)

Terrorism is not something that involves just one or two countries, but is an epidemic that is truly global in scope, and has especially found good soil in the 10-40 window. If the western world (a.k.a. "United States") wants to deal decisively with terrorism, it will have to ignore soveriegn boundaries, especially if those boundaries are being used to shield those that need to be brought to justice...wether it's Iran or Ireland...

In order to effectively fight terrorism, it may also take the resurrection of a type of warfare that not many people would like to see come back to life: total warfare. Let's pray it doesn't come to that...