I read the inerrant word of God and place trust in it. The end of this planet was told from the beginning. Damascus is a heap of uninhabitable ruble waiting to happen. Plan on it. God is not a liar.

Syria has nothing to worry about then .

The various Christian communities in Syria should be allowed to find safe havens before we "do" Damascus. They are ancient communities with interesting and beautiful traditions and have nothing to do with the majority Muslim population.

The toothless threaten to bite.

Israel cannot be reconciled with the Mafia regime of Assad. Syria will wait till the moment that it sees chances of defeating Israel. Syria cannot efford good relations with Israel. The Assad family has established a hereditary dynasty shored up by repression within, and confrontation and terror abroad. The rule of the Assads is not aimed at improving the lot of their people or forwarding a particular ideology. They changed ideology from secular Arabism to a seemingly impossible confection of pan-Arabism and Islamist extremism because it was expedient to do so. Hafez Assad came to power following a dizzying succession of coups that had made Syria the most unstable regime in the Middle East. The Assads are seated atop a bucking bronco. They are members of the Allawi religious minority who are usually not even considered to be Muslims. They rule a country of disparate minorities with a potential for chaos almost as great as that of Iraq. The radical Muslim Brotherhood is always there, threatening to take over the country by fair means or foul, and the usual Ba’th party rivalries that have plagued all such regimes are also a threat to Assad family rule. Their rule is not about improving living standards for Syria. Syrian living standards have fallen behind the none-too-glamorous ones of Jordan or Egypt. It is not about democracy, a Western luxury Syria can’t afford, according to Bashar Assad. The Assad regime is about stability, and it is about money and power for the Assad family. The regime is comparable in every way to the fictional Corleone Mafia family. Prosperity and peace would ruin the Assad regime. Therefore, Western assumptions that Syrian leadership must want peace and prosperity are mistaken, and it is pointless to “engage” Syria in dialogue except insofar as it is possible to confront them with their violations and insist that they mend their ways as explained at : http://xrl.us/bjcsd

The fake evidence of WMDs in Iraq has totally destroyed US credibility. Nobody takes it seriously anymore. Furthermore, everyone can see that the US never cooperates or compromises, but demands to have its own way on everything. Countries know that if today it's Syria, tomorrow it might be them. This story is just one more example of the US threatening.

Assad is an amateur and he won't survive like his daddy did. He should go back and be a doctor and his life would be longer. Good grief!

If Israel continues it war crimes, the rest of the world will be happy to support all actions agaist it.