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PhilT2: "His claim that the Syrians were happy and well fed until the CIA started a rebellion doesn't stand up either. The long drought and the countries economic problems at that time are well documented. Not saying that the US is innocent but lots of arab nations had issues around that time."

Some of you might remember that after 9/11 the neocons in the US came up with the 'Axis of Evil' (one of them must have overdosed on comics): Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

What they really wanted to say was that Iraq, Iran and Syria constituted the so-called Axis.

But that would have given the game away. It would have been too obvious that all they were concerned about was the Middle East; specifically, states that were not stooges for Israel and the US.

So they left Syria out and included North Korea. North Korea was included to make it look like we, the West, were facing a global threat - and we had to do something about it ... like starting off with an invasion of ... Iraq ... in the Middle East.

North Korea was never going to be invaded. Not a chance. It was simply a decoy to distract us from the main game.

The Israelis would love to see the US attack the next country on the list, Iran, but even Shrub (baby Bush) wasn't stupid enough to do that.

Syria was, however, up for regime change. Obama didn't quite seem to have the desire to complete the job and with Iranian, Russian and Hezbollah support Syria managed to survive, albeit not entirely intact.

I wonder if they will have another go at Syria now that Russia has been weakened in Ukraine.