Wither the Levant

Well, the bellicose rhetoric is spewing this morning.

Iran is threatening to destroy Israel, Israel is threatening to unleash biblical level destruction on Gaza, etc etc.

Yes, it gets dull after a while.

Readers should recall that the Six Day War started becuase Nassar and Assad kept one-upping each other, rhetorically speaking. 

In the Middle East it's important to show that you hate Israel more than the other guy.

Arabs love that crap.

Devotees will recall that we believe the existential conflict will result in the destruction of Lebanon. But given all the action in Syria the last year, we ask ourselves, why not war with Syria first?

We're envisioning an Israeli version of President Nixon's highly successful Cambodian Incursion of 1970. In this effort Israel would destroy every Iranian base in Syria, cut the Beirut/Damascus highway and destroy other infrastructure.

Doing so would destroy Iran's conduit to Hezbollah.

I mean, what's a little war?