Operation Matador

We've know all along the Syrian's were scheming with Sadaam and his henchmen. At least I knew it. They got cheap oil and Sadaam got a way to circumvent the UN embargo by bringing goods and military hardware through Syria. I'm convinced Syria and Iran were given or took technology left unprotected in the month following our forced entry into Baghdad and the dissolution of Iraqi forces that were protecting chemical, biological and other high-technology military applications. There have been several substantial news organizations that provided insight into roving bands of organized looters in the initial weeks following the fall of Baghdad. It seems these groups knew exactly where to go and took everything. Iran has been implicated. I think Syria was asked to hold unknown quantities of unknown materials until the end of the UN's latest attempt at enforcement. Only Sadaam never anticipated the U.S. and its allies would actually drive into his capital and thrown him out of power. Thus, we may never know what Syria hid for him. And we may never know what Iran took once his troops ran away.

Now we do know Syria has not been tending their border and has been encouraging the sanctuary of their border to foreign fighters looking to die in martyrdom while taking a few dozen ordinary Iraqi citizens or an American soldier out at the same time. Now we know the truth as a result of Operation Matador.

Those border crossings and the regions leading into and out of Syria should be shut down and locked up. How long can Zarqawi withstand American pressure with no sanctuary or sources of fighters and cash?