http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD146407 While Simon's Europe intends to sit out the War until America elects someone that suits them, the War goes on without them. Here is an interesting article pertaining to strained relations between Syria and Iran. And while Leftists can manage to figure out who it is that is threatening us, the Islamic Militants have no difficulty with that. Here are two of them being discussed: Syria and Iran. We don't hear much about Syria, but they have been an ally of Iran. Can a secular Baathist regime be an ally of an Islamist regime; something Douglas Feith thought possible but the CIA didn't back before the Iraqi invasion - a second guessing of the CIA the Inspector General of the Defense Department though inappropriate? Well yes, of course it can. It is, but all is not well as the former Jordanian information minister Saleh Al-Qallab writes. Syria fears that Iran would be willing to sacrifice them to their nuclear ambitions. He writes, "The cooling [of relations between Syria and Iran] is serious, and is not just a tactical [maneuver]. It will develop into a split and into severe hostility, unless Tehran finds a way to bridge [the difference] between its own priorities and those of Syria. Damascus cannot remain calm and serene with the threat of the international tribunal hanging over its head. If the Syrians sense that Iran [plans to reach understandings regarding Lebanon] without them, they will hasten to give the Americans everything they want in return for guarantees regarding both the preservation of the Syrian regime and the international tribunal." Lawrence