Posted on 10/19/2005 9:23:20 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
AS I suspected six months ago, and U.S. military and Bush Administration civilian officials confirmed, U.S. forces have invaded Syria and engaged in combat with Syrian forces.
An unknown number of Syrians are acknowledged to have been killed; the number of Americans - if any - who have died so far has not yet been revealed by the U.S. sources, who, by the way, insist on remaining faceless and nameless.
(Excerpt) Read more at toledoblade.com ...
Securing the Syrian Border - An Unconventional Solution
by Bill Roggio (also read the comments)
http://billroggio.com/archives/2005/10/securing_the_sy.php
War in Toledo first. They seem to have plenty of insurgents needing cleaned up.
lobbing some missiles at sonnyboy would take the puff out of his chest
Mr Brown, screeching " Cambodia"
humbug
Next we'll hear, Senator Kerry spent last Christmas in Syria.
Thank you very much.
He proffers no evidence that this is in fact happening. There are no claims of any specific sources for his information. I could, with equal support, claim we have iunvaded the moon, and are already in a quagmire. What he means is that he is afraid of upsetting the enemy.
The sky on his planet is definitely pink.
"I see the wife still picks your ties."
Who exactly is acknowledging that a number of Syrians are dead?
I hope this guy is right. Syria has to stop aiding the insurgency. An incursion or two into their territory would underline this fact.
I this info is wrong. Taking a war across a border isn't just a Vietnam parallel; we almost lost the Korean war the same way. Dissuading Syria calls for a more elegant solution.
"An incursion or two into their territory would underline this fact."
I don't know. Now that they have passed the referendum on their constitution, I'm ready to get the heck out of that part of the world and let them kill off each other if they want to. We've done our job now let's save our troops and our money by coming home.
Saturday, January 8, 2005 Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met Saturday with Syria's president and said he was hopeful that strained U.S.-Syrian relations could be improved, provided Washington seized "a moment of opportunity" in the Middle East.
The United States has accused Syria of doing too little to stop insurgents from infiltrating into Iraq to attack coalition forces. Washington also has imposed sanctions on Damascus, accusing it of seeking weapons of mass destruction and hosting Palestinian groups Washington deems to be terrorist organizations.
Syria denies the accusations but says it cannot fully control its long, porous border with Iraq. Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., met for two hours with President Bashar Assad, then with Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, with both meetings centering on Iraq and how to prevent militants from moving from Syria into neighboring Iraq.
"I think we found a great deal of areas of mutual interest, some common concerns and some possibilities for initiatives that could be taken in the future to strengthening the relationship between the U.S. and Syria," Kerry told reporters after meeting with al-Sharaa.
"I leave here with a sense that we can improve our relationship. There are significant possibilities, particularly with the elections in Iraq and the elections in the West Bank ... This is the moment of opportunity for the Middle East, for the U.S. and for the world. I hope that we would seize that opportunity."
Assad stressed "the importance of dialogue between the two sides over all issues under discussion, especially those of common interest," Syria's official news agency reported.
Kerry, who lost the election to President Bush in November, said he and Assad discussed Iraq, security, Lebanon and weapons of mass destruction.
Imad Moustafa, Syria's ambassador to the United States who attended the meeting with Assad, said Syrian-U.S. relations are passing through a "critical but positive" stage and that his country wants constructive dialogue with the Bush administration.
In September, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling on Syria to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and dismantle the Syrian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group. Syria, with some 14,000 troops stationed in Lebanon, is the main power broker in that country.
More recently, President Bush has warned Syria and Iran against "meddling" in the internal affairs of Iraq. Washington and Baghdad both have said that key support for the insurgency in Iraq was coming from a half brother of Saddam Hussein and Baath Party leaders based in Syria.
Kerry, who is on a two-week tour of the Middle East, arrived Friday from Iraq, where he met U.S. troops in the volatile northern city of Mosul.
Kerry, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will be in the West Bank for Sunday's Palestinian election and is expected to visit a polling place.
After Kerry left the Foreign Ministry on Saturday, 13-year-old Mustafa al-Nabulsi approached him with a drawing of the senator as a soldier in his Vietnam days. "You have made me much more important than I was, though. You made me a general," Kerry said. "I wish you were the president," al-Nabulsi said. "Thank you very much. So do I," Kerry said.
Personally I wouldn't shed a tear if we laid waste to everything withing 25 miles of the border. But what is really happening at least to date is that the U.S. is following the diplomatic dance with France and the UN, and there isn't likely to be any invasion until the investigation of the Syrian assassination program in Lebanon is finished. One would hope that given his antecedents Mr. Simpson would be supportive of that approach.
"Dissuading Syria calls for a more elegant solution."
like giving them some more money and being reawy reawy nice to them?
nonsense.
The more elegant, the better...but until I hear what specific actions "elegant" means, it is simply a nice warm and fuzzy term, with no meaning in the real world. Syria needs to seal its border or the Iraqis and the COalition forces will do it for them.
We're supposed to be distracted by a super secret operation that nobody knows about?
Really...
Clearly, he's distracted by a great many things. Voices... voices... telling him to say things... voices...
:-)
"Dissuading Syria calls for a more elegant solution."
I think a Jdam up Assad's and his cabinet's ass would be a pretty "elegant solution".
Course, that's just me, I'd probably flush a "Holy Koran" too.
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