The US will get involved in the conflict. All this was planned

[Windy]

Once the first israeli soldier was taken, the ball was put in motion. This is how the US will go into Iran and Syria without, in the administration's twisted view, upsetting the american people. They believe that the majority will want to help israel and that they will have the backing of the US citizens for going into Iran and Syria, thus furthering the PNAC agenda that they have been pushing since Bushco came into power.

Just MHO...

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Quit Thinking....

You're liable to figure out their plans and schemes in advance.

[Onus]

9. What do they say about great minds thinking alike?

I couldn't have said it better myself OCD.

[niallmac]

2. Sounds plausible and just in time for elections too. n/t

[icymist]

3. No. This is how Isreal will go into Syria to 'defend itself'.

And then the US will have to defend Israel. Just in time for the election this Fall.

[tridim]

6. Why does the US "have to defend Israel"?

I know it's a rhetorical question, but did I miss that part in our Constitution?

[icymist]

12. That's the excuse the little man whose picture you have in your post will

the little man (GWB, not Stewie) whose picture you have in your post will use, IMHO.

[Junkdrawer]

4. From 2003...

On September 20, 2001, in a historic speech to a joint session of Congress, President George W. Bush famously declared, "Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated." Few terrorist organizations meet this standard, but Hezbollah is definitely one of them. The Lebanon-based group has cells on every continent, and its highly skilled operatives have committed horrifying attacks as far away as Argentina. Before September 11, 2001, it was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist organization. Hassan Nasrallah, the group's secretary-general, recently proclaimed, "Death to America was, is, and will stay our slogan." Since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada in September 2000, Hezbollah has armed and trained Palestinian terrorists, further fraying the already tattered peace process. Hezbollah operatives have reportedly traveled to postwar Iraq to rekindle historic ties with Iraqi Shi'ites.

It is hardly surprising, therefore, that many in the United States have argued that Hezbollah should be the next target in the war on terror. Shortly after September 11, a group of leading scholars, pundits, and former government officials, including William Kristol and Richard Perle, declared in an open letter to President Bush that "any war on terrorism must target Hezbollah" and urged that military action be considered against the movement's state sponsors, Syria and Iran. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has warned of Hezbollah's lethality, noting that "Hezbollah may be the A team of terrorists," while "al Qaeda is actually the B team."

....

To have any chance of success, a U.S. military operation would have to involve a sustained counterinsurgency campaign -- something that Israel tried for 20 years, only to find that its efforts strengthened Hezbollah's resolve and increased its local and regional appeal. In response to a U.S. attack, Hezbollah might activate its cells in Asia, Europe, and Latin America -- and possibly in the United States itself. The United States, furthermore, is today in a far worse position militarily and diplomatically than it was before the war in Iraq. Occupying Iraq is tough enough; a fight in the Bekaa Valley, a Hezbollah stronghold in Lebanon, would only make things worse.

....

http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20031101faessay82606/daniel-byman/should-hezbollah-be-next.html?mode=print

[whistle]

5. Starting July 15, 2006 official date of the beginning of WW III

...approved by SCOTUS on December 12, 2000

http://cronus.com/SCOTUS/

[Windy]

7. Just notice how quick the US and Israel are to blame Iran/Syria

[applegrove]

8. ? ,,,once the soldier was kidnapped? Sorry - sharing tactics amongst

the enemy is what has to happen when you engage them on many different fronts. This may not have happened (escalation in Israel/Palestine) if USA had just gone to Afghanistan and finished the job there. But after 3 long years of "slow war" in Iraq..alQaeda & jihad are somehow metasticizing into the Palestinian Idependance thing. At least the terrorists in Palestine are picking up on al Qaeda tactics.

Read the first Chapter of "Assassin's Gate".
:scared:

P.S. Condi should just shut the fuck up and stop "asking for caution". Pot stirrer. Tell the people on the ground in Israel and Palestine that there is a ****ing US election on.. and they'll just have to get used to more war for now.:sarcasm:

[Cvortex_10]

10. Fighting by proxy is standard fare now...

for super-powers. Russia and the US did it in Nam as did China and the US in Korea.

Today, the flavor of the month is US/Israel vs Iran and their proxies.

[Sydnie]

11. I was listening to CNN while making dinner and they had a reporter

In Beirut reporting. He actually said that the Israeli ship had "taken more damage than planned". My jaw hit the stove! And no, it's not because his english was anything less than fluent either.