The Huffington Post reports that Dr. Zalmay Khalilzad, the US Ambassador to Iraq,

made the off the record prediction that the US will go into Syria to combat insurgents that have been using the country as a staging ground for terrorist activity in Iraq.

That statement was made at a hush hush, off the record gathering run by leveraged-buyout tycoon Teddy Forstmann in Aspen. Amongst the luminaries in attendance at the conference were: Harvey Weinstein, Brad Grey, Michael Eisner, Les Moonves, Tom Freston, Tom Friedman, Bob Novak, Barry Diller, Martha Stewart, Margaret Carlson, Alan Greenspan, Andrea Mitchell, Norman Pearlstein and Walter Isaacson.

Yeah that’s right. Martha friggin Stewart. But yeah, whatever. Syria, huh? Intriguing …

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  • Boy, I feel safer now that Martha Stewart is behind bars. O.J. & Kobe are walking around; Osama Bin Laden is still out there, and they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard and haul her ass to jail.

    — Tim Allen

    copied from http://www.beachhillel.com