Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East

If Israel hits Syria, that could easily involve Egypt, who has a defense treaty with Syria, and Iran, although I believe that Iran is more bluster than anything else.

If Iran, indeed, has accurate long range missles that could hit Israel, all they would have to do is hit Dimona, Israel's nuclear program location that they still claim doesn't exist, and the whole damn place could go up in one of Condi's mushroom clouds, unless they have it so far underground that conventional weapons cannot touch it.

But I doubt that will happen, because it would be suicidal on Iran's part. Iran is probably under a Satellite microscope, even as I type this.

Bush is just waiting for a reason to move forward with the NeoCon/Likudnik diabolical plans for the middle east and surrounding areas.

Truthdig - Reports - Chris Hedges: Mutually Assured Destruction in the Middle East:

ISRAEL'S air, land and sea blockade of Lebanon, which includes jet fighter strikes against the airport in Beirut, presages a new era in the Middle East, one in which the center has collapsed and Muslim and Jewish extremists, capable only of the language of violence, determine the parameters of existence. These strikes, like the suicide bombings carried out by Islamic militants in Iraq or Israel, expose the Ahab-like self-immolation that now inflects the region. And unless it is halted soon, unless those fueling these conflicts learn to speak another language, unless they break free from an indulgence in collective necrophilia, the Middle East will slip into a death spiral.

This has been a long time coming. The Bush administration never had any interest in helping to broker Middle Eastern peace agreements. This willful negligence was seen as befriending Israel, along with the bizarre demands of the Christian right. In fact, the administration befriended only an extreme political wing in Israel that, since the death of Yitzhak Rabin, has done a pretty effective job of endangering the Jewish state by dismantling all mechanisms for peace and turning Israel into an international pariah. As the machinery of Middle Eastern diplomacy rusted shut with disuse it was gleefully replaced by harsher Israeli closures, curfews, shelling and airstrikes. Palestinians have, since Bush arrived in office, been reduced by Israel to a subsistence existence matched only by Africans. And the tools of repression against Palestinians now match those once imposed on South African blacks by the apartheid regime, with the exception that the South Africans never sent warplanes to bomb the townships.