On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Speaking of which, Syria pulled an excellent counter to the US bullying.
"No WMD in the middle east". Who could object to that, and who would their owners be, and who could fail to see that?
And if the US actually does something military (agreed, there's a decent chance of that) then Osama wins bigtime. Checkmate.
There's 2 sides to that move - by forcing Israel to join the no WMD group they'd have to eliminate their nukes. No way Israelies will go for that, so the US loses face again. This helps all the Osama's even more (plus it gives Iran a good reason to go to Pakistan for the last bit of help they need to complete their weapons.) So the US better conquer the whole area pretty quickly or it'll be dealing with nuclear powers instead of chemcial ones. Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike