Looking out the rear window of a vehicle with a poster showing Bashar Assad, left, his father Hafez Assad centre, and Lebanese Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, with Arabic legend reading 'Men Promised and Fulfilled', in Damasus on Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006. As the U.S. debates whether to reach out to Syria for help in calming Iraq, some close to the Syrian regime say the country would be willing to help, but only if it got something valuable in return, although the regime itself has stayed tightlipped on the issue. (AP Photo Bassem Tellawi).