Analysts have mostly focused on the risk of retaliation from Syria itself as the Obama Administration prepares to launch a war against them, but regional opposition could spark retaliation from other sources.
That includes al-Nujaba, a key Shi’ite militant faction in Iraq which has promised to retaliate against US interests in Iraq and across the region in retaliation for the American attack on Syria.
The overall capabilities of Nujaba aren’t clear, but the group has loyalty of a lot of militia factions left over from the US occupation of Iraq, including Mehdi Army fighters and Iraqi Hezbollah.
The group has sent some of its fighters to neighboring Syria, initially to defend Shi’ite holy sites and at times also clashing with Sunni rebels inside Syria. The sectarian nature of the war has made it regional, and the US attack could rapidly suck America into the religious conflict.
THE US needs a BIG pop in the chops !
Whoa!!!
Looks like Obama and mob may be biting off more than they can digest.
People do say something like this out loud sometimes: the way to prevent the US from initiating war, or at least to prevent any public support for them, is with decades of aerial bombing by a rich foreign government. None of this lone-wolf stuff like sneaking up on them to bomb a subway, it really needs to be a sustained attack on their infrastructure; water, sewage, electrical, bridges, shelter, … the death rate should be in the millions, and be sure to torture them and stir up conflict between any cultural divisions you can so that the US remains a hornets nest for years. Put the vanquished leaders on 'trial,' destroy their name, and you'll pretty much never have any trouble with them again. Of course, to do that, you'd probably have to be the US in the first place.
A close second might be to sell them a fictional enemy they can pursue for decades, one that loosely justifies endless soldier redeployment. Guaranteed they'll never learn. But whatever you do, don't do little stings that only affirm their fantasies about their place in the world. In general, what you wouldn't do to pacify a psychotic, don't bother doing to the US.