One month ago - on 1/15/05 - I posted on the relationship of Syria and Iraq, and posited that we would use Lebanon as our wedge to gain some leverage over Syria. The post was titled: THE ROAD TO DAMASCUS GOES THROUGH BEIRUT.
The Hariri assassination may be more useful to the USA's efforts at containing/taming Syria than the continued presence of Syrian troops which violates UNSCR #1559. IF the USA can prove that the Hariri murder was done by Syrian agents, then the USAwill use it to "forcibly neutralize" the Assad regime and get Syria to play ball. AND IF the neojihadist group that CLAIMED responsibility is phony, then this might be further proof that the bombing was indeed done by Syria.
BUT IF it is a real neojihadist group, and if the murder was in fact a result of a suicide bomber, then I think this indicates that Iran - and NOT SYRIA - was behind the murder -- (because, as I blogged HERE, Iran is more neojihadist than Syria; Syria merely exploits Hizballah for its own geopolitical gain; whereas Iran is truly neojihadist.
If we prove that Iran was behind it, then we should unilaterally undertake an OPERATION DESRT FOX type attack to destroy all of Iran's nuclear assets and most of the military infrastructure. (OPERATION DESERT FOX was the unilateral attack that liberal Democrat President Clinton waged against Saddam in 1998 - without UNSC approval and without even explicit Congressional approval.)
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