Just getting them to the Mediterranean coast, to cut down the shipping distance between the Mid-East and Eastern Europe.

The port of Latakia on the Med coast is ideal for staging our withdrawal from Iraq. Good port, good location, very handy.

Any predictions on when "near" becomes "in"?

I Ran
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I walked along the avenue.
I never thought I'd meet a girl like you;
Meet a girl like you.
With auburn hair and tawny eyes;
The kind of eyes that hypnotize me through;
Hypnotize me through.

And I ran, I ran so far away.
I just ran, I ran all night and day.
I couldn't get away.

A cloud appears above your head;
A beam of light comes shining down on you,
Shining down on you.
The cloud is moving nearer still.
Aurora borealis comes in view;
Aurora comes in view.

I'm sure we've already gone "in" vs. "near" many times. We've even killed some Syrian border guards in skirmishes. Right now Syria is on the defensive. The best thing to do is to continually cross the border in hot pursuit. If they whine, they acknowledge weakness in the sense that they cannot stop us. If they don't, we just keep escalating. I'm sure that somebody will leak this evil plan to Kristoff but that's reality.

"News reports indicate that Pres. Assad of Syria was accidentally killed today when an American bomb dropped during a skirmish along the Iraq-Syrian border destroyed his office in Damascus."