The Next Chapter In the One-Sided War

A summit meeting between Iranian frontman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Syrian stooge Bashar Assad, also attended by top Hezbollah and Hamas brass? Might our enemies have something new in the near-term works? Adolph seemed to hint at it:

It's going to be a "hot" summer in the Middle East, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following a surprise meeting with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus on Thursday evening, Channel 10 reported.

Nasrallah allegedly entered Syria via an underground tunnel, the television channel said.

"We hope that the hot weather of this summer will coincide with similar victories for the region's peoples, and with consequent defeat for the region's enemies," Ahmadinejad added, in an apparent reference to Israel.

During his one-day trip to Damascus, Ahmadinejad held talks with counterpart Bashar Assad which focused on the Iraq situation, Palestinian territories and Lebanon, where both Teheran and Damascus wield influence.

Now to what could the Geico caveman-lookalike be referring by the term "hot"? Offhand I'd say it was nothing that we or our Israeli allies are going to like. Another two-front proxy war against Israel? Ratcheting up the proxy war against us in Iraq even further to coincide with the preparation of General Petraeus' September interim report to Congress on the progress of the "Surge"? Or perhaps something else, something more dramatic, more drastic - say, an above-ground nuclear test? Or perhaps carrying out the test above Tel Aviv or Manhatten?

I tend to be skeptical about the reports I keep reading of Iran's burgeoning economic collapse. I doubt that either the Russians or the ChiComms will let so useful a client state slip through their fingers that easily. But if the aforementioned reports are true, it would behoove us to recall what the response of Imperial Japan was when we were putting the economic screws to them in 1941. Hint: they didn't knuckle under to our demands.

Perhaps the only difference this time is at which end of the war nuclear weapons will be used - and which side will be receiving them.