Posted on 10/06/2004 6:57:33 PM PDT by wagglebee
Assad can't lose with this meeting, however. If he believes Bush will win, he's made an overture at a positive time for Bush. If he deals with Kerry, he's got a better deal than Willie ever offered.
But, if true, if Assad truely means to reduce tensions, then look at what Bush has accomplished. Bush has liberated Afghanistan and Irag, neutralized Libya and Syria, leaving only Iran on the area's axis of evil. And, if the Israelis take out Iran in the next couple of weeks and Egypt, Jordan and Syria don't attack, we got enough to win a democrat (not a Republican, of course) a Nobel Peace Prize!
"But, I don't think Israel should give up the Golan, other than that, let er rip"
Israel might indeed give up Golan, under the right conditions. I know Lebanon would like to get the Syrian army out of their country after 30 years. If so, it would give some assurance for Israeli security.
There may be pattern here.
Libya came around.
Now Syria?
It might be good timing.
Your right, this could be the October Surprise!!
Assad sees two things: 1) Bush will probably win in November and his Syrian regime is a phone-call away from having the props kicked out from under it; and, 2) Israel just knocked-off a Palie terrorist in downtown Damascus.
Ditto!
Think any of this might be due to the strong American presence in the region? Might these regimes be scared of having an Iraqi-style invasion done to them by the U.S. military? Look what happens when Washington D.C. is governed by a strong leader. You won't have that if Thurston Howell Kerry III and Opie Edwards steal their way into the presidency.
Funny---one hears nothing about Syria and Lebanon for weeks or months, and then twice in the same day, I hear
from two different fronts, some re-assertion of this region as an important political front: Today a rather eloquent and serious Lebanese -AMerican, who has lived here since the early 80s brought up this very subject in a call to Bob Grant's radio show,proposed it as something that should have some priority in the Bush Administration's MidEast policy (pressure on Syria) and nostalgically pined for the days of his youth in the 70s, when Beirut was not the occupied and oppressed place it is now, but was a center for excitement and culture....and this is about the third time I've heard that in the last few months, once from a limo driver who took me to Newark Airport. I never knew this about Beirut, because all my adult associations with it only start at about the time our Marines were carbombed there. Prague and Budapest were the same way before Commie tyrants made those cities their own.
most important news of the day bump
Israel, watch the knife--it's somewhere close.
They see the Ba'athists going down in Iraq and know they are the next domino. So they'll make peace.
Bush has taken on the incredible job of transforming the Middle East. Wow...what a man.
So Indyk was sent by Bush or Kerry?
Assad would rather make peace and keep his billions than end up like Saddam. I think he may understand that Bush is willing to take him down and he's scared. The mid-east leaders have been bluffing for decades and they are starting to realize the rules are changing.
The article says he is asst Sec of State for the Near East. Presumably that means he was sent by Bush.
How many times have they asked for peace while training and arming the terrorists? 6 Syrians were just found in Iraq. The Iraqis beat the hell out of them, and then they turned them in. I trust Syria as far as I can throw a stone from the Golan Heights. My arm ain't that good.
THat's what it's all about. One Word: Credibility.
"Trusting Iran is like trusting North Korea....."
Trusting Iran is like trusting Kerry!
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