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Richard Cochrane is trained in chemistry and metallurgy but is far more interested and practiced as a political and fund raising consultant, writer and amateur historian. He grew up in a Navy family and with his two younger brothers carried on its 500+ year tradition of naval service to Great Britain and the USA then enjoyed a career with one of the largest advertising and public relations agencies working with numerous Fortune 500 companies and many of America's premier educational institutions. He maintains friendships and acquaintanceships around the world. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.

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U. S. Warns Syria Against Attack On Lebanon

October 3rd, 2008 • Richard Cochrane

Is Syria posturing a second front to reduce the chance of Israel striking Iran?

Washington warned Syria last Sunday not to attack Lebanon and accompanied this warning to Damascus with its first explicit threat of military intervention to aid Lebanon should Syria go through with its planned incursion of the North.

 Syria has concentrated 10,000 troops on the Lebanese border.  First it denied it then saying it was to prevent smugglers. The latter idea is scoffed at by analyst pointing out that many troops and assets are clearly war preparations.

 The stern warning was delivered on Sunday, Sept. 28 by U. S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice to the Syrian foreign minister Walid Mualem.

 With Russian and North Korean personnel all over Syria and its warship lying at anchor in its Mediterranean Sea port a U. S. counterattack would quite possibly result in casualties among those foreign forces.

 It is possible that Syria, an Iranian vassal, is posturing a second front to reduce the chance of Israel striking Iran’s nuclear bomb factories.

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  1. Comment by Marshall Ivan Risidin on 3 October 2008:

    The Russian bluff and bluster is not ready for shock and awe. The Russians know it, remembering the Soviet missile cruiser in Libyan harbor when President Reagan sent in the F-111 squadron, successfully.

    The battle is coming, and it is not a game of chess.Russia wins in chess [diplomacy extended] but will not fight a real opponent.

    China is staying back, waiting to be the only remaining player, thinks Marshall Ivan.

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  3. Comment by S.W.Suggs on 26 October 2008:

    Well, it doesn’t exactly require the mind of a rocket scientist to figure out why U.S. forces attacked Syria inside it’s EASTERN border now does it?

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