Going Out With Guns Blazing

President Bush must have a great deal of confidence in whoever the president elect will become. The bleak economic situation America is facing as well as a continued war in Iraq seem not to pose a big enough challenge to whichever candidate will come to power in the November 4th election. To make the job truly challenging, American troops launched an attack on a target within Syrian borders. Syria has aided the United States on it's borders with Iraq. In the last month Syria has been particullary co-operative. Though the details on the attack are still hazy it is believed that special operations ground forces and possibly helicopters entered Syrian borders and launched an attack on a building believed to be harboring millitants. During the attack there were no American Casualties though 8 were killed including 4 children. This attack not only came at a surprising time (given recent Syrian cooperation as well as the proximity to the election) but also poses a significant danger to the shaky base on which an American presence can be maintained in Iraq. Some writers, both domestic and abroad, are touting this attack as a final play by Bush to anger Syria with whom he was at ends for many years.