I don't know whether you remember the song, but the tune is annoyingly familiar. The same one was sung by Saddam Hussein, the master of underground concealment... well, up to a point, that is:
And now the same idea - of retaliation aimed at Israel, if US attacks Syria, came to the Syrian honchos.
A member of the Syrian Ba'ath national council Halef al-Muftah, until recently the Syrian propaganda minister's aide, said on Monday that Damascus views Israel as "behind the aggression and therefore it will come under fire" should Syria be attacked by the United States.Yeah... not very original, as you can see. Besides minding the rope, the thinkers of Damascus should consider this map*:
In an interview for the American radio station Sawa in Arabic, President Bashar Assad's fellow party member said: "We have strategic weapons and we can retaliate. Essentially, the strategic weapons are aimed at Israel."
It shows the distance between the current border with Israel and Damascus as 74 km (without avoiding toll roads). A flying crow will estimate the same destination as being about what, 65-70 km away?
Why should Syrians need "strategic weapons" is unclear. IDF will certainly manage without such dramatic means.
Know what I mean (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)?
(*) Google doesn't want to show a driving map from any Israeli city to Damascus, so I have chosen Al Quneitra, which lies on the current border with Israel as sufficient for the rough estimate.
10 comments:
Snoop,
This is the song that comes to my mind (not sure why):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=k66ED403Al8
Well, when he says "we" he probably means his masters in Iran. And that's the best reason to leave him alone. Overthrowing him will do nothing to the real source of the trouble.
I think its' a very fitting song to the subject.
Oh, but it will definitely inconvenience their Tehran masters. Losing the conduit to Lebanon, plus Syria itself is not a small thing to them, and to their Russian friends as well.
Brett Stephens argues in today's WSJ: http://tinyurl.com/lcvotul to take the fight directly to Assad, his brothers and assorted elites via strikes on his palaces. OTOH that could provoke a direct attack on the White House and Iran is just the country to get it done.
Snoop,
I've always assumed you were in the UK somewhere, but if you're not and in Israel instead take care. Get ready for things look to get busy.
I guess even Iranian Ayatollahs, mad as they may be, don't relish the idea of Iran becoming one glass-covered parking lot.
UK? Nah, I am still here, in the Entity. I would rather move to... say, Cleveland before even thinking about UK.
Soothing words, but neither W nor O had/have the guts.
When a man is pushed into a corner, he may do things unthinkable otherwise.
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