Just a few days ago I was waxing wise on how Obama is going to stall any action on Syria till after the election. Syria, as anyone who seriously follows these matters well knows, is the segue into the long anticipated war with Iran.
Events may be overtaking Obama. Suddenly the provenance of his birth certificate and the hoo-ha over Mitt's tax returns seem to be fading into the background.
A couple of days ago there was a story floating around about Assad's chemical warfare capabilities. The usual (highly suspect) sources had info that Assad's troops were accessing stockpiles of nerve gas. Echoes of Saddam's WMD all over that one. The story failed to gain serious traction at the time.
Yesterday Major General Aviv Kochavi, Israel's military intel boss, made some public statements to the effect that if Assad falls, the northern border is in play. Kochavi does not harbor any illusions about the nature of the Syrian uprising. These are not secular democracy-loving liberals calling the shots in the revolution, no matter what the Syrian expats in London and Washington want us to believe.
Today a busload of Israeli tourists in Bulgaria were targeted by a terrorist bomb. It took Netanyahu about fifteen seconds to announce that Iran was behind it. Suddenly the faltering coalition and the protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are relegated to the back burner.
Also today, a bodyguard with access to the highest levels of the Assad regime took out a good slice of Assad's senior leadership with a suicide bomb, that time-honored tactic of secular oppositions everywhere.
Connect the dots. It's not hard to see where things are going.
And I no longer believe matters will wait till November.
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