Good catch, BigFinn! .................... FRegards
Posted on 09/17/2007 11:27:46 PM PDT by Enchante
Further, it should be obvious that the Israeli-Palestinian arena is not the most critical one. Rather, it is whether rogue regimes like Iran and Syria will continue to get away with their race to obtain more devastating non-conventional weapons and their rampant support for international terrorism. It is the latter that will determine the viability of the former, not vice versa.
As our columnist Barry Rubin suggests today, a significant message from General David Petraeus's testimony in Washington is that the Baker-Hamilton report had it exactly backward. Teheran and Damascus do not, as the bipartisan report claimed, share an interest in a stable Iraq, nor can any development in Israeli-Palestinian relations make more them more cooperative. Rather, as Rubin puts it, "Petraeus tells the tough truth: Iranian imperialism is at war with America and has no interest in any compromise solution."
The amorphous Israeli-Syrian incident should accentuate the urgent challenge of our day: to prevent Iran and Syria from obtaining nuclear weapons. We hope that this incident helps prove that Israel will use all necessary means to do so, and that it is the supreme interest of the international community to solve the overall problem short of last-resort intervention, as is still possible with sufficient will.
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Why do liberals persist in taking pride in being stupid Ostrich-like appeasers trying to ignore the gravest threats developing in the world today?
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Good catch, BigFinn! .................... FRegards
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