Iran and Syria -- The Next Big War

In super hero movies, many times you will see the archvillain team up with another archvillain to make a super bad ass team to battle the good guys. In Batman Forver, you saw the Riddler team with Two Face, while in Superman 2 you saw Lex Luthor and General Zod try to work their magic together. One foe is tough... but TWO super villains? Well, how is the hero going to do it?

Well, if George W. Bush was worried that his first term only had one villain apiece with Osama Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein, he has no worries now. Bush can raise the bar a little higher with the Iranian-Syrian tag team. Certainly, the United States has much more military might to battle either country. But a combined force would need more soldiers and planes than the U.S. could afford to send. Where would the fighting force come from? Pull them from Afghanistan? Iraq? South Korea? Europe?

Without a stronger world coalition, Bush would have to look to the draft. Are the Soccer Moms ready for this? I don't think so. The Soccer Moms, who became Security Moms in the last election, have been very gung ho on the War on Terror. But that was because it was other mother's sons going to fight in the war. Now after all those years of protecting their children from the hazards of Suburbia going to do, what are they going to do when little Johnny has to head to war? Buyer Beware. Ain't no mini-vans in the desert.

One thing the Iran-Syria coalition will do is put Israel on notice. And any Arab coalition could rattle their nerves, and could cause the U.S. problems, especially, if Israel wants to claim First Strike honors. They do have the Bomb. Yeah... That could keep Syria and Iran off their backs. However, if Israel were to rattle that saber, the rest of the Arab community could spark one of those Domino Effect coalitions... and well... A World War would be upon us. It doesn't take much to extrapolate on this one. Remember it took just one lowly Serbian Arch Duke to send an entire world to war. Scary stuff for sure.

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