All systems Go!

Syria’s Antiaircraft System Most Advanced In World. Syria has gone on a profligate buying spree, spending vast sums on Russian systems, ‘considered the cutting edge in aircraft interception technology.’ Syria now ‘possesses the most crowded antiaircraft system in the world,’ with ‘more than 200 antiaircraft batteries of different types,’ some of which are so new that they have been installed in Syria ‘before being introduced into Russian operation service.’ While you’re digesting that, take a look at the map of Syria: Notice how far away Dayr az-Zawr is from Israel. An F15/16 attack there is not a tiptoe across the border, but a deep, deep penetration of Syrian airspace. And guess what happened with the Russian super-hyper-sophisticated cutting edge antiaircraft missile batteries when that penetration took place on September 6th. Nothing.

El blanko. Silence. The systems didn’t even light up, gave no indication whatever of any detection of enemy aircraft invading Syrian airspace, zip, zero, nada. The Israelis (with a little techie assistance from us) blinded the Russkie antiaircraft systems so completely the Syrians didn’t even know they were blinded. Now you see why the Syrians have been scared speechless. They thought they were protected - at enormous expense - only to discover they are defenseless. As in naked. Thus the Great Iranian Freak-Out - for this means Iran is just as nakedly defenseless as Syria. ocnus.net

If the Israelis can hit Syria a few miles from the Turkish border there is more than a little wrong with Syrian air defence. And, by rather serious implication, Iranian air defence.

The mullahs are flying blind. At this point their best hope is that Bush does not have the balls to hit their nukes. Or the political support to hit the Revolutionary Guard who are daily killing Americans (and Iraqis) in Iraq.

I’ve no respect at all for Bush’s abilities as an occupier but as an attacker - first rate.

Let’s face it, he has nothing at all to lose short term. The Congress has declared the Revolutionary Guard terrorists. A serious, regime changing, air attack on Iran - possibly combined with special ops to clear out the nuclear capacity, in full concert with the Israelis and, with luck, the French, would be a grand way to end a Presidency.

No doubt the Arab “street” would be a bit pissed. But, done right, it would also be shocked and awed.

As OBL famously pointed out, in a competition between a weak horse and a strong one, people will prefer the strong horse. Time to underscore who the strong horse actually is.

Written by jay on September 28th, 2007 with no comments.
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The Harper government announced it ran a larger-than-expected budget surplus of nearly $14-billion last fiscal year and immediately pledged to return $725-million of this to voters as tax breaks. globe and mail

I love the idea that 725 million of 14 billion will be returned to the taxpayer as a tax break. About $35.00 a head. So, using that handy number we can work out how over taxed we are. A return - and let’s not call it a break, there is no slack being cut here - of $350 per head would be around 7.25 billion. Call it half the over taxation.

A conservative, as opposed to Liberal-Lite, Prime Minister would apologize abjectly for taking so much more than was needed and promise to return half and devote the rest to reducing the national debt.

and that might be a person I’d think of voting for.

Written by jay on September 28th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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