Meanwhile, on the Syria/Lebanon border...

[Deckard]

Breathless neocons are issuing alarmist warnings about a possible Syrian invasion of northern Lebanon.

"Just when you thought that the Middle East couldn't support yet another crisis -- after all, there's Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan-Pakistan, and throw in Georgia, too -- the Syria-Lebanon front is heating up. This is serious stuff."


A Syrian invasion of Lebanon, right in the thick of US election fever.

Mmmmmm.

Even McCain couldn't engineer that one.

See also Fears rise in Lebanon of Syria return

And on an unrelated (?) note, this just added to the BBC news ticker - Syria rebuffs nuclear inspectors.

Please no. We don't need it, period.

And we need it even less in the next 31 days.