US Chose Bad Time to Impose Syria Sanctions-Arabs

Reuters ^ | Wed May 12, 2004 11:46 AM ET | Lin Noueihed

[RightWhale]

How about a new American Army base just north of Damascus? Should be good for the Syrian economy.

[Centurion2000]

Unfortunately for the Japanese, the March 9 raid was the beginning, not the end, of LeMay's incendiary campaign. He sensed that his moment - a truly deadly man in charge of a huge democratic force free of government constraint - had at last arrived, as the imperial Japanese command was stunned and helpless. All the old problems - the weather, the enemy fighters, the jet stream, the high-altitude wear on the engines, political limitations on bombing civilians - were now irrelevant. There was to be no public objection to LeMay's burning down the industrial and residential center of the Japanese empire - too many stories about Japanese atrocities toward subjugated peoples and prisoners of war had filtered back to the American people. To a democratic nation in arms, an enemy's unwarranted aggression and murder are everything, the abject savagery of its own retaliatory response apparently nothing.

Muslims take heed. We're coming to this.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think there needs to be a new 8 lane superhighway from the Mediterraen thru Baghdad heading toward Tehran and Kabul. Should improve the commerce of all countries.

I am sure that France would see merit in improving the highways of commerce!

[hgro]

Syrians have been screwing the United States for years and nothing was done. Finally we have a president that has told them we have had enough. When they disgorge the WMDs and round up their and their imported terrorists then and only then should we get serious about dealing with them. A warning should be given to the Egyptioans that they too should get their house in order.

[ASA Vet]

throw all muslims out of the U.S

Most mooselimbs in the U.S. are native born U.S. citizens.
Where do you want to send them, and will your chosen place take them?

[jdege]

Muslims take heed. We're coming to this.

Not for a while, yet.

We're still in the "moderate reform" phase, where we try things like ejecting dictators and giving "moderate" muslims the chance to build a peacable society.

But we'll get there, if the Arab world doesn't change.

The basic truth is that we cannot change the Arab world - we can only destroy it. Only they can change it.

But one way or another, the threat is going to end.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The Leftist appeasers such as Kerry and Clinton must not get control of this country again.

[RightWhale]

Egypt is okay. They are with the program for the most part. They always were more cosmopolitan than the yokels in Syria.

[RightWhale]

Maybe it is time. Columbus was searching for a route to India, or China as they say, that would not involve going through Moslim land, and of course such a route was found even though Columbus was not part of that particular discovery. The Middle East was indeed happily put on the back burner economically and there it stayed until the oil unfortunately became important. Trade routes are still important, but there is so much choice these days that a new road from Cairo to Bombay wouldn't necessarily dominate trade but would give the region something in addition to oil to drive the economy.

[blam]

"We are working our way slowly to this happenning again!"

Something equivelent anyway.

[RasterMaster]

Send them all to Allah....he can decide what to do with them.

[MEG33]

I may faint,I may cry...we may have the arabs cease to love us like they did before the sanctions.We may anger the arab street!..I am without comfort. Syria has always been so helpful/s

[bitt]

ping - I'm keeping this!

[aculeus]

Huh? Is this reporting? An op/ed piece? WTF!

It's not reporting. It's Reuters.

[hershey]

Well, of course it's Victor Davis Hanson and it's wonderful.