Syria - Another Red Line

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Tribesman

This is as unexpected as tuesday being the day after monday.

Almost true. Most of us had this feeling that it would not just be material Iran would send to Syria and help them fight the opposite.

What is bad news for me is they(Syria) are going to open a new front against Israel.

Markus

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by Mittelwaechter

Cui bono?

That is the very first question to be asked when reading these types of reports.

[Platapus]

Originally Posted by mapuc

This is not good news

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...a-8660358.html

Markus

Good let Iran get bogged down in a political and economic quagmire for a change.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Almost true. Most of us had this feeling that it would not just be material Iran would send to Syria and help them fight the opposite.

What is bad news for me is they(Syria) are going to open a new front against Israel.

Markus

I doubt the Israelis will be that bothered but will probably see it as an opportunity to confirm who is top of the pecking order.

Good let Iran get bogged down in a political and economic quagmire for a change.

Thats good on the surface, but the quagmire must of course include as well as Iran Iraq and Syria the oppositions allies, which means Saudi and the other gulf monarchies plus Turkey and maybe Egypt
That economic quagmire plays buggery with the world economy due to all the black stuff they produce and all the black stuff that transits the area.
The west still gets sucked into the political and economic quagmire regardless of if they deploy troops or not.

I doubt the Israelis will be that bothered but will probably see it as an opportunity to confirm who is top of the pecking order.

The Israelis do seem bothered enough to complain a lot about the Iranian arms shipments through Iraq to Assad and Hezballah.
As for the pecking order, their last big adventure to the north didn't confirm them very well at all(neither did the couple of previous rounds in that direction). Indeed it made their power and capabilities seem very stunted.