TIME TO SLAP SYRIA

New York Post ^ | 4/22/04 | PETER BROOKES

[kattracks]

April 22, 2004 -- SYRIA is helping foreign fighters and terrorists - and their supplies - slither across the 600-mile border into Iraq. In other words, Damascus is supporting the killing of American and Coalition soldiers and civilians - like the five Marines lost along the border last Saturday.

[GeronL]

Slap Saddam, Slap Ossama, Slap Hillary, Slap that girl from the Apprentice.... there been a whole lot of slapping going on lately.

[GladesGuru]

You forgot to add to your list the slapping of ALGORE - the public must be getting 'slap happy'. If you liked last election's slapping of socialism, state tune for the upcoming slapfest this November. :)

[Just mythoughts]

Syria is getting help from somewhere, as is Iran. Could it be that is what the liberals mean when they seek to recreate the "vietnam syndrome" over this war in Iraq.

The communists were funding and supplying Vietnam in Vietnam and in the US. Maybe there is a world wide communists conspiracy funding these of Syria and Iran to give the appearance of Vietnam again, while the communists of the world fund the liberals campaigns during this election year.

[risk]

They don't need external funding because of oil money, especially Iranian and Saudi. A China or a Russia would be more likely to contribute by U.N. security council actions, diplomatic nuances, or even by giving intelligence/advice or "leaking" specific arms components available on the black market.

An example of diplomatic nuance is the whole issue of Taiwan vs. the DPRK's nuclear threat. China knows it's a good time to pressure the USA. So do France and Iran, for that matter. But China can apply pressure in highly indirect ways.

[Just mythoughts]

"They don't need external funding because of oil money, especially Iranian and Saudi. A China or a Russia would be more likely to contribute by U.N. security council actions, diplomatic nuances, or even by giving intelligence/advice or "leaking" specific arms components available on the black market.

An example of diplomatic nuance is the whole issue of Taiwan vs. the DPRK's nuclear threat. China knows it's a good time to pressure the USA. So do France and Iran, for that matter. But China can apply pressure in highly indirect ways."


The UN is hardly in a position these days to respond with credibility. Syria had plans and hopes to get the same "nuclear" deal Iran got from the Russians.

Now our own liberals seem to be calling the direction of focus for their fellow travelers. This continuous drum beat of seeking to make Iraq the reenactment of "vietnam" is not just one of symbolics. Step back and remember the players that cause what most Americans perceive the loss of a war in Vietnam.

Creation of a "vietnam syndrome" requires the same players on the world stage and is not limited to just a bunch of "60's" hippies. These people are not playing games, "FREEDOM" in Iraq is the beginning of the END of their way of life.

[Helotes]

"Then increase the pressure: Call for Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon in the Security Council."

Brookes hits on the next step. Take Lebanon away from Syria. Keep drying up the swamp that is the Middle East.

[blanknoone]

I think we just bring in another heavy division and station it on the border, and make clear to Syria that if they don't behave, they go away. Perhaps with an intermediary step...something along the lines of looking up terrorist organizations in the Damascus phone book, then having B52 strikes on the addresses. Of course, B-52's dropping dump iron bombs are not exactly precision, but hey.

I think one of the problems is that Syria knows the US has a history of cleaning up messes and knows our clean up resources are stretched thin. We treat our vanquished enemies better than our true allies. We cannot undertake a rebuilding of Syria now. They think that means that we cannot take them out. They need to know that we have the option of destroying them, then leaving them in their cesspool of a country.

[Hewar]

There is no doubt about the role of Syria in what is hapening in Iraq. Why they could control the border when their Baathist brothers were in power?
The thugs who are fighting in Iraq are calling them selves Shek Yassin' brigade. on Aljazera channel. Iraqi's will never call themselves after this man.They need to be punished or they will continue their way of thinking and behaving. They are same as Saddam, look at the mass murder and imprisonment of kurds in Heleb and Qamishlo.

[happygrl]

Shek Yassin' brigade. on Aljazera channel.

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