Army Post Road

     I haven’t found much to write about since Monday. Working and socializing, no true highlights. We met some interesting girls Tuesday and last night. One girl is the daughter of a prior brigade sergeant-major of ours and another girl we met only in passing was the (underage) daughter of the post commanding general. The second interaction was interesting and brief, to put it politically. We also found some new girls to go out on the boat during the weekends with us. That’ll be nice.
     I do want to add a few comments about the new conflagration in the region around Israel. I really don’t see the situation getting better without it getting much worse and by that I mean a broader war in the Middle East involving Syria, Lebanon, Israel and potentially the United States and Iran. I have no doubt the Israelis could handle Syria, Lebanon, and Hizbollah/Hamas on their own but I don’t believe Syria would go down without taking advantage of the United States’ presence in Iraq to spark as widespread a war as they can. I do not see a war involving the US and Israel vs. Syria, Lebanon, and probably Iran as a good development at all.
     Wars against Syria and Iran would be more straightforward in the sense that they have large(-r) state-funded, uniformed militaries that would fight conventionally but who’s to say they wouldn’t copy a page from the playbook used by the Saddam Feydayeen? Throw down their uniforms and fight as guerrillas.
     It’s all speculation in the very early stages of a conflict that may flame-out very quickly too. We’ll have to wait and see.