With the US looking like it’s falling prey to pacism and falling for the farce of an accord between Syria and Iran, lets just move the clock forward to the end of time.

The coup is underway today in Lebanon with the assasination of Pierre Gemayel, most assuridly cordinated through Hezbollah by Syria. Olivier Guitt over at the Counter Terrorism blog, nails it with this take:

“the timing and the murder of anti Syrian Christian Minister Pierre Gemayel should not be any surprise. Indeed for months now, anti Syrian Lebanese personalities have been under heavy physical threat. Some of them have been even shuttling between Paris and Beirut to lessen the odds of them being killed. Even French President Chirac has been pointing out about the imminent dangers and offered in some cases protection for top leaders. Also recently a list has been circulated with the names of the potential victims of Syrian terror. The most prominent politicians including Saad Hariri, Walid Jumblatt, Fuad Siniora, Samir Gegea are rounding the top spots on the list.
While there’s no doubt that Syria is all over this latest murder as it was in the 2005 targeted assassinations of anti Syrian activists, intellectuals and journalists, the operatives might turn out to be pro Syrian Lebanese, including potentially Hezbollah members. Indeed it’s no coincidence that Hezbollah left the Siniora government ten days ago and is preparing massive street demonstrations for Thursday; Jumblatt actually thinks it’s going to be part of a coup. Also since the Siniora government just approved the installation of an international tribunal to find out the truth about the murder of Rafik Hariri which will likely prove Syria’s central role, Syria wanted to send a clear and loud message. Today’s murder of Pierre Gemayel and also today’s attempt on the life of anti Syrian Minister Michel Pharaon are the signs of Syria’s strategy of escalation to plunging the country in chaos and if possible into a civil war.”

But more than just civil war. There are powers far beyond borders working at regional instability with the goal of surrounding and finally destory Israel. Don’t let anyone fool you - this is ALL about Israel, it always has been. America is targeted not because they are the west, but because they have allied with Israel. Remember the 1988 founding covenant of Hamas proclaims, ‚ÄúIsrael will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.‚Äù Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel’s destruction and has described the Holocaust as a “myth.”

We ignore the warnings at our peril.

It’s hard to believe but just five years after 9/11 we are just about where we were before the attack - with our asses literally in our hands listening to a used car salesman - Kofi Anan - telling us that we are finished as a power.

It’s good to remember:

“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it”- General Douglas MacArthur

Like it or not, believe it or not, we are enter a fight for our very existance.

UPDATE: Good article in Opinion Journal today on dealing with Damascus and a possible clear connection to Assad personally.