Bomb-Iran week turns 'Syrious'

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By Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON - This past week was supposed to be all about Iran - at least, that's how Israel and its powerful US lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), had planned it - and why the US should prepare to bomb it very, very soon if its leadership doesn't cave into Western demands to abandon its nuclear program.

By week's end, however, the most urgent foreign policy issue with which US policymakers and their media camp followers were grappling was whether to bomb Syria first instead.

Remarkably, the sudden deviation was triggered by Tuesday's dramatic call on the floor of the senate by Republican Senator John McCain for the US to provide decisive support to rebels battling to oust the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

"The only realistic way to do so is with foreign air power," declared McCain, whose strategy was swiftly endorsed by his two hawkish fellow-travellers, Republican Senator Lindsay Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NC10Ak02.html

[David__77]

1. I would like to thank the extreme-right neocons for endorsing this...

It will help to put those in the Democratic ranks who would endorse such a thing on the defensive. It is only a matter of time before we see it, "left" calls for US military intervention against Syria, shameful though it is.

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2. I love it when they fight among themselves.

It means they are less likely to be colluding to rob the public.

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3. du rec. nt