WILL U.S. STRIKE SYRIA?

U.S. May Strike at Ba'athists in Syria - Janine Zacharia (Jerusalem Post)
The U.S. is contemplating incursions into Syrian territory in an attempt to kill or capture Iraqi Ba'athists who, it believes, are directing at least part of the attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq, a senior administration official told the Jerusalem Post. "I think the sanctions are one thing. But I think the other thing [the Syrians] have got to start worrying about is whether we would take cross-border military action in hot pursuit or something like that. In other words, nothing like full-scale military hostilities. But when you're being attacked from safe havens across the border - we've been through this a lot of times before - we're just not going to sit there....If I were Syria, I'd be worried," said the official. Another U.S. official said that sentiment reflects a "growing level of frustration" in Washington at Syria's reluctance to detain Ba'athists and others who are organizing attacks from Syrian territory.