Congeries of cross connected concepts
Syria has agreed to try and seal the border between Syria and Iraq to the jihadis crossing over. It’s difficult to believe that Syria will make a real effort. Evenif you ignore the strategic benefit to the Ba’ath in Syria of a destabilized Iraq, sealing the border means keeping armed psychotics in Syria instead of sending them over to Iraq to get killed. The real question is, what’s more trouble - the jihadis or the displeasure of the USA and Iraq?
