War With Syria and Iran = Peace With Iraq? The ISG said

[rodeodance]

to talk with Iran and Syria, but Bush instead threatens them.


William M. Arkin on National and Homeland Security
War With Syria and Iran = Peace With Iraq?
Seek out and destroy.

If there's anything in the President Bush's remarks tonight that we didn't already know or didn't anticipate him saying militarily about Iraq, it is his evident willingness to go to war with Syria and Iran to seek peace.

Speaking about the two countries tonight, the president said that the United States wiill "seek out and destroy" those who are providing material support to our enemies.

It is only a threat. But it is a far cry from the diplomatic proposals floated just last month for making Syria and Iran part of the solution. Can the president really be saying that we are willing to risk war with the two countries, and even attack elements inside them, to achieve peace in Iraq?

In his speech to the nation, the president announced that he would send 21,500 additional U.S. soldiers and Marines to Iraq, a force that he said will deliver the necessary punch needed to quell sectarian violence in Baghdad and western Iraq, as well as signal to the Iraqi government that this is really, really the last chance.........

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/2007/01/the_president_giveth_and_he_ta.html