If we say they don't want war, maybe they won't want war

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who led the flight from southern Lebanon seven years ago, has apparently decided that if he gets the IDF's generals to say often enough that Syria doesn't want war, the Syrians may really not want war, despite all signs to the contrary. There are no signs that Syria is interested in starting a war with Israel, and Israel has no information that Hizbullah is planning