Erstellt am 30.11.2006 - 08:38

Syria Planned Wave Of Political Assassinations In Lebanon

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This once again shows the folly of engagement with the Syrian regime. They have been one of the biggest supporters of terrorism for many years, as their relationship with Hezbollah clearly demonstrates. Now they have been caught trying to assassinate dozens more Lebanese officials, an act of war for which Syrian should suffer severe consequences. What exactly do we have to discuss with these evil dictators, except the terms of their surrender?

Erstellt am 30.11.2006 - 11:01

Dreams of Peace and the HISH Alliance

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The Baker Commission has been touted as the triumph of the Realists. The Realists have always supported stability as the best approach to this volatile part of the world. There is a superficial plausibility to the argument that ff we "talk" to Iran and Syria, we will, in fact, gain stability. If the violence in Iraq decreases (which would be proof of Iran and Syria complicity in fomenting violence), we would then be able to withdraw our troops. As an important corollary, the American public will no longer be bombarded by images of blood and carnage; the violence in Iraq will recede from view and what violence persists will be off stage where no one will notice.

[This is one way in which Vietnam is instructive. Once we left, and then pulled the financial plug on the South, the million Vietnamese and two million Cambodians who eventually were murdered by the victorious Communists returned to becoming unknown statistics. Once they no longer served the purposes of the anti-War media, they no longer existed, out of sight and out of mind.]

The stability will be temporary and illusory, of course. Iran will continue recruiting suicide bombers, will push forward on obtaining a nuclear capability, and the Syrians, as the opportunities present themselves, will continue to destabilize Lebanon. The two terrorist proxies in the HISH Alliance, Hamas and Hezbollah have been feverishly arming and re-arming in preparation for their next round of fighting.

Another illusion that the Realists have in the past espoused is that solving the Palestinian Israeli problem will lead to peace. This is, if anything, even more of a fantasy. The Palestinians have always allowed the most radical elements to define their default position and the present circumstances are no different, with a faux ceasefire (not even reaching the level of a Hudna since the missiles have continued to fly from Gaza into Israel) the current meme du jour. The Palestinians continue to insist on the end of Israel and until the Jewish state agrees to commit suicide, there will be no peace:

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