{"id":37271,"date":"2013-08-27T13:09:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37271"},"modified":"2013-08-27T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:09:32","slug":"intervention-in-syria-may-trigger-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37271","title":{"rendered":"Intervention in Syria may trigger terror attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a>, filling in for the hand-wringing liberal media in this particular discussion, posits that US and western intervention in Syria, whatever that might be, could trigger more terrorist attacks throughout the region and the West. Now, I think that’s probably the least worrisome result of an attack on the Syrian government, but certainly one that I’ve seen left out of the traditionally liberal media. I mean it was a daily concern in the run up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but, since this administration is plunging head-long into the Syrian morass, I’ve not read about it anywhere else.<\/p>\n

Tensions between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic\u2019s nuclear program have fueled the protracted and secretive war \u2014 a tit-for-tat exchange marked most often by operations and attacks carried out from the Middle East to Eastern Europe and Asia by Hezbollah and Israel\u2019s lead intelligence agency, the Mossad.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are groups that have long memories,\u201d Matthew Levitt, who heads the Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that the type of asymmetric activities that we\u2019ve been seeing already in the context of the shadow war over Iran\u2019s nuclear program would continue with [an American military strike in Syria] serving as yet another factor motivating Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s government, which most in the U.S. intelligence community think exerts heavy influence over the activities of Hezbollah, sought Monday to downplay the likelihood of a U.S. strike. But some officials in Tehran said that if a strike occurs, Israel would be targeted in response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, see, that’s the result of fighting a half-assed war against terror. Terrorists must be terrorized into submission the same way that they terrorize civilians and governments, and obviously, that hasn’t happened in the last twelve years. Since we have been so head strong about proving to the world that we’re “better than they are”, no one is scared of our military – they’re scared of our bombs and bullets and the troops, but they’re not scared of our commitment to waging total war towards total victory. <\/p>\n

We rushed for the exits in Iraq and we’re rushing for the exits in Afghanistan, even though our troops are still engaged with the enemy and taking casualties. I wonder why Iran doesn’t think anyone will use force in Syria against Assad? It could be because no one has summoned the testicular fortitude to bring Iran to heel in regards to their nuclear program.<\/p>\n

If anyone in Syria took our “red line” threat seriously, the more recent attacks wouldn’t have occurred. Remember when Qaddafi surrendered his weapons of mass destruction in the weeks following the invasion of Iraq because he thought that he was next. It’s not power that brings these people in line, it’s the credible threat of the use of power. We have no more credibility in that regard. The same way our credibility had eroded through the nineties and caused Hussein to think that we wouldn’t invade Iraq again. Maybe instead of using force on Syria, we should instead target Tehran, the real enemy all along. Like I’ve said before, in 2003, when Baghdad fell, we should have made a hard right turn and taken on Iran which would have solved a lot of problems in the following years of war against terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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