Posted on 12/28/2006 9:44:34 PM PST by freedomdefender
Recent visits by Syrian President Bashar Assad to U.S.-allied Yemen and the United Arab Emirates are prompting speculation that Syria is seeking to leave the Iranian orbit and pursue closer ties with the West. Such a move would fulfill a major recommendation of the Iraq Study Group, headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee H. Hamilton, which suggested it might be possible through diplomacy to pry Syria away from Iran.
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The U.S. is Assad's best deal despite appearances. Iran wants to own him and so do certain actors in Saudi Arabia. But he's riding the tiger of the Lebanon involvement and Iran is slowly taking control of that from him. What he has going against him is his blatant and outrageous support of foreign terrorism in Iraq. That's a losing hand anyway. What he has going for him is a little-marked but significant support of the U.S. effort elsewhere in the WOT in the form of his domestic intelligence agencies. It may be enough to call off Bush's dogs, or it may not.
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