Posted on 12/30/2004 11:41:17 AM PST by tbird5
THE HEREDITARY president of Syria, Bashar Assad, has earned a reputation for reckless behavior, the antithesis of his father Hafez Assad's careful, calculating statecraft. By his bungling, Bashar has begun to undo all the patient work his paternal predecessor did to colonize neighboring Lebanon. The son has also misplayed the delicate game his father had mastered of balancing Syria's intertwined relations with Israel, disparate Palestinian factions, and Washington.
But recent disclosures by officials of Iraq's interim government suggest that Bashar's most flagrant and dangerous blunder is to tolerate, or perhaps even collude with, exiled former officials from Saddam Hussein's regime who have been financing and guiding a Ba'athist counterrevolution in Iraq from sanctuaries in Syria.
Iraq's ambassador to Syria told The Times of London last week in Damascus that his government has evidence of Syrian complicity with Iraqi Ba'athist operations inside Iraq. The ambassador said that last month when US Marines captured Moayed Ahmed Yasseen, leader of one of the armed groups in Fallujah, they found photos of Syrian officials, including one of Yasseen posing alongside a senior Syrian official. Yasseen's group, known as Jaish Muhammad, is composed of former Ba'athist intelligence officers in Saddam's regime.
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Once we flatten Syria, they only one we have left is Iran.
What the hell is Bush waiting for?
Selective air strikes in Syria seem like a good idea to me.
His head would look good on a pike. Don't you think?
"We'll do absolutely nothing to Syria except scold them, Bush has lost his stomach for this stuff."
I think you are right. If the desired outcome for the middleeast is Democracy. Syria needs a regime change.
It already looks like it's on a pike. LOL
I don't know if they were implying that they would goe to war with each other, or if we would fight them.
Yo, Bashar. This MOAB's for you.
Terrorist hit list:
#1. Syria
#2. Iran
#3. Wherever the terrorists who leave the above go to.
Bush is to Syria right now as Nixon was to Cambodia in the early 70's....if he wants to win, strategically he has no choice but to strike them.
Remember, Bush's greatest presidential skill is his poker playing ability, and I mean this seriously. As far as intellectual giants and high IQ advisors, he can get all he wants or needs. When it comes to sitting down at that no-limit high stakes world leadeer holdem' game, Bush beats the others, hands down. They can bluff, semi-bluff, grumble, kibbitz, but in the final show-down, Bush will be holding the Royal and they will be left with the rags. Look into his eyes and you will never see a tell. But at the end of the day, all the chips will wind up in W's stack, and that's a bet I will give you on odds on any day of the week.
If the troops we have in Iraq are not enough to pacify it, yet, what makes you thik we could take on two more countries?
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