In the early days of the Iraq war, when it looked as if it would be wrapped up quickly, some of the war's more ardent supporters suggested that as long as we were in the neighborhood, why stop at Baghdad?

After all, just across Iraq's western border is Syria. And although Syria didn't make the cut for President Bush's original Axis of Evil, the Baathist government of President Bashar al-Assad had long had ties to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, to say nothing of Hezbollah terrorists in ...

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