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    (snip)"Monday, February 21, presidents George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac meet in Paris. With Lebanon at the forefront of their agenda, they will have to look hard at some tough questions. How to handle the situation if Assad orders his Syrian troops in Lebanon to march on Beirut in defense of his puppet government? And worse still, what if the full weight of the Syrian army is sent across the border to squash the uprising? Will the two Western leaders dispatch a joint US-French force to repulse the Syrian onslaught?

    If they did, it would be the most drastic event to hit the Middle East since the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. The second American invasion of an Arab land might this time be partnered or endorsed by a European power.

    To force the hands of the American and French presidents, the leaders of the Lebanese uprising are preparing a spectacular event to coincide with their summit. One proposal is for a hundreds of thousands of protesters to march through Beirut’s streets and seize the parliament building."(snip)

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    Default Re: French troops soon to be fighting along side GI's in yet another Middle East war ?

    I think we should mind our business.

    The Syrian Army would be the least of "our" problems if we went into Lebanon.

    I also think BushCO and the Zionists just want to open up another war. Since it was a toss between Syria or Iran, this is very convenient for them. Whenever anything blows up in the Middle East, I suspect Mossad before anybody else.

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    Default Re: French troops soon to be fighting along side GI's in yet another Middle East war ?

    Quote Originally Posted by Melonie
    If they did, it would be the most drastic event to hit the Middle East since the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. The second American invasion of an Arab land might this time be partnered or endorsed by a European power.
    Wasn't the last one partnered/endorsed by a European power (Britian)? That didn't change much by way of how the rest of the world saw it (including the british).

    Personally, i'm banking on another war sooner or later. It's just a matter of who it is getting blown up. Syria might be more likely, though, since they are always giving these news blurbs about insurgents sneaking over the syrian border.

    Honestly, i don't see what this is gonna do. Historically speaking that area has been at war with itself ever since the dawn of human civillization (literally, since the first ones started there). How is anything we do gonna change that? There's 10,000 years of history gnashing it's teeth over there.

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    IMHO somewhere at the base of all this is the recent change-up in the position of Vladimir Putin in regard to discouraging democracy in former Soviet satellite countries, open support for the Iranian nuclear program, selling sophisticated weapons to Syria which will surely be used against coalition troops in Iraq as well as Israel, plus arguably selling out to muslim terrorist elements in Russian republics in exchange for no more schoolhouse hostage situations etc.

    Putin's former podium partners Chirac and Schroeder were really left 'holding the bag' politically speaking by Putin's change-up, and have to be getting nervous - particularly in light of the surprising strength of 'white separatist groups' a.k.a. Neo-Nazi a.k.a. 'close the borders and kick out the primarily middle eastern foreigners' political parties in both countries last elections ! Have a look at if you aren't aware of the rising presence of such groups.

    Given the present position of Egypt, Jordan and the Saudis, I don't agree with your speculation that a French-US invasion of Lebanon in support of armed Lebanese 'freedom fighters' at the specific request of the Iraqi gov't and the 'legitimate' Lebanese gov't would immediately start a regional war. Increasingly, Syria and Iran are being isolated in terms of their position in the middle east as well as the rest of the world. Also, the French participation would lend some semblance of UN sanctioned legitimacy to any invasion of Lebanon, as this country is a former French protectorate. Also, a successful invasion of Lebanon leading to 'regime change' in Syria would leave Iran totally isolated from it's middle eastern neighbors - none of whom want to risk the fallout of an Iran vs. Israeli nuclear exchange blowing over their territory.

    At any rate, tomorrow's meeting between GWB and Jacques Chirac, and meetings later in the week with Putin and Schroeder should be extremely interesting !
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    Default Re: French troops soon to be fighting along side GI's in yet another Middle East war ?

    Well, i don't think we'll be stuck in a regional war. If that was gonna happen, it would have happened a couple years ago when we started blowing up Iraq (If, by 'regional war' you mean the whole region). But i do think that Syria is gonna get hit next, i'd bet on it in fact, rather than Iran. The closest it would come to a regional war would probably be similar to what is going on in Iraq, only more widespread, with even more fanatics crying doomsday. I don't see the US going to war with Jordan or the Saudis any time soon, for instance.

    To clarify a statement i made in my last post: I'm not one of those doomgloomers who insist that everything is going to explode over in the middle east again and again. I think it exploded as soon as humanity set foot in the place, and has been exploding ever since. The whole history of the place has been war after war, that's not ALL of what the Middle East is about, and i'm not saying it's history is bad (there was civillization there for a looooong time, while white boys like me were running around painting ourselves blue, so they got a lot to be proud of). But for such a small area compared to other regions it's history has been decidedly bloody. The Middle East has had enough wars for three europe's.

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    I don't see the US going to war with Jordan or the Saudis any time soon, for instance
    Try never ! Jordan and Saudi Arabia are both monarchies, whose power is directly threatened by Islamic Fundamentalism and the possibility of Theocracy replacing 'Constitutional' Monarchy. or put another way, Jordan and Saudi Arabia would very likely provide strong back room support to any country which wants to blow the Syrian/Iranian fundamentalists off the face of the earth !

    The Middle East has had enough wars for three europe's
    Well, for that matter, the middle east has brought a bunch of wars to Europe, and the Europeans have taken some of those wars back to the middle east. Given that one of Osama's stated goals is to re-establish Andalusia, and given where the vast majority of recent, non-assimilating European immigration is coming from (i.e. Turks, North Africans and other Muslims), European govt's are increasingly going to be forced to take a stand on this issue.

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