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November 08, 2005
Is Syria Next?
The Washington Post is reporting, in its blog section(!), that U.S. military planners have been "updating" their target lists for Syria. Here’s the money quote: "Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld directed U.S. Central Command to prepare a ‘strategic concept’ for Syria, the first step in creation of a full-fledged war plan. The planning includes courses of action for cross-border operations to seal the Syrian-Iraqi border and destroy safe havens supporting the Iraqi insurgency, attacks on Syrian weapons of mass destruction infrastructure supporting the development of biological and chemical weapons, and attacks on the Syrian regime. U.S. forces have also been operating along the Syrian border since early 2003, and there have been numerous reports of clashes between U.S. and Syrian forces on Syrian soil, as well as reports of U.S. special operations forces operating inside Syria."
In fact, that isn’t just the money quote, it is pretty much the whole article. Why doesn’t the Washington Post think this is worth full front-page treatment?
Posted by Richard Miniter at November 8, 2005 10:52 PM