Syria facilitating the thugs
Peter Brooks:
" 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.
"We must make Syria pay a price for this - and make it stop.
"Even Syria's defenders can only claim it's merely turning a blind eye to the bad guys. But U.S. military officials say that Damascus is, in fact, facilitating the thugs' movement and supplying them as well. Some believe that these foreign militants, including members of the deadly Shi'a terrorist group, Hezbollah, are instigating a lot of the troublemaking in Iraq right now.
"Osama bin Laden has urged jihadists to travel to Iraq to fight the infidels, and as many as 3,000 foreign radicals may have already entered the country from as far away as Sudan and Chechnya. Up to 300 Syrians are in Coalition custody.
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" Syria won't mend its ways on its own. Assad's rusting, socialist Ba'athist regime is scared to death of having a shiny, new democracy right next door. The Syrian economy is in terribly bad shape (20 percent unemployment) and young people, who are fed up with the lack of reform, are pressuring the regime.
"A democratic Iraq could send a tidal wave of freedom crashing over Syrian borders, drowning the hapless regime. The Iranian mullahs, Iraq's eastern neighbor, are shaking in their boots as well. In fact, the Syrians and the Iranian have deepened their cooperation of late just because they fear the effects of a democracy in the neighborhood.
"Even beyond its troublemaking in Iraq, Syria is a problem on other fronts:
"* It's a major state sponsor of terrorism, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. These groups are blocking any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process through their acts of terror. All of them maintain offices, training camps and other facilities on Syrian soil. They also operate in parts of Lebanon occupied by the Syrian military and security forces and get funding and logistical support, including weapons, from Iran via Syria.
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" If terrorist camps along the Syrian-Iraqi border can be identified, we should consider military strikes."
I have considered it and decided they should be destroyed.
Peter Brooks:
" 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.
"We must make Syria pay a price for this - and make it stop.
"Even Syria's defenders can only claim it's merely turning a blind eye to the bad guys. But U.S. military officials say that Damascus is, in fact, facilitating the thugs' movement and supplying them as well. Some believe that these foreign militants, including members of the deadly Shi'a terrorist group, Hezbollah, are instigating a lot of the troublemaking in Iraq right now.
"Osama bin Laden has urged jihadists to travel to Iraq to fight the infidels, and as many as 3,000 foreign radicals may have already entered the country from as far away as Sudan and Chechnya. Up to 300 Syrians are in Coalition custody.
...
" Syria won't mend its ways on its own. Assad's rusting, socialist Ba'athist regime is scared to death of having a shiny, new democracy right next door. The Syrian economy is in terribly bad shape (20 percent unemployment) and young people, who are fed up with the lack of reform, are pressuring the regime.
"A democratic Iraq could send a tidal wave of freedom crashing over Syrian borders, drowning the hapless regime. The Iranian mullahs, Iraq's eastern neighbor, are shaking in their boots as well. In fact, the Syrians and the Iranian have deepened their cooperation of late just because they fear the effects of a democracy in the neighborhood.
"Even beyond its troublemaking in Iraq, Syria is a problem on other fronts:
"* It's a major state sponsor of terrorism, including Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command. These groups are blocking any solution to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process through their acts of terror. All of them maintain offices, training camps and other facilities on Syrian soil. They also operate in parts of Lebanon occupied by the Syrian military and security forces and get funding and logistical support, including weapons, from Iran via Syria.
...
" If terrorist camps along the Syrian-Iraqi border can be identified, we should consider military strikes."
I have considered it and decided they should be destroyed.
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