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To: epicure who wrote (22785)	7/20/2003 5:16:36 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Sometimes I'm a little slow, so five easy steps, "one-step-at-a-time" urging Damascus to end work on weapons of mass destruction, stop providing arms to Hezbollah and expel from Damascus members of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, who shatter the dreams of Palestinians of their own state. One. Syria doesn't follow the neo-con script in a "timely manner". According to the standard neo-con fantasy, by now, in “shock and awe”, of the US “victory” in Iraq, the Syrians are supposed to kowtow and acquiesce – in complete contradiction to all previous behavior. Somehow, they just don’t seem to have “gotten the message”. Perhaps they can’t hear the message above the “din of the crowd”. You know, that crowd of Muslims answering the call of their Imams to go to Iraq. Syria has become the way station for the bulk of this traffic. quoting some Congressmen and officials of the U.S. administration as saying, "The development of biological and chemical weapons by Syria has reached a point that represents a threat to stability in the Middle East." Two Oblivious to the problems of the existing Tar Baby (and more importantly in this case, Syria’s ability to perceive those problems), the neo-cons simply decide “to apply the pressure” like they did in the “build-up” to the Iraq War. Just like – even to the point of using “questionable evidence”. So Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and another U.S. intelligence agency have opposed last week a draft plan, through which Bush administration launches a campaign against Syrian efforts to develop non-traditional weapons, U.S. official told U.S. New York Times. Three. No creativity, no change in the MO at all. Unbelievable, hubris. When even the politically naive start mumbling the Bera quote “Déjà vu, all over again”, oops. "The testimony has been postponed, as John Bolton went to attend a White House meeting," Four. But what lessons have been learned from this experience? A U.S. administration official who refused to be named said that Bolton's draft testimony went far beyond what the U.S. administration had previously said about Syria's program of developing non-traditional weapons. He reiterated that the opposition of other U.S. intelligence agencies probably meant that "this is not the suitable time for moving" against Damascus. Five. Oh, I see. It was a timing problem. Got it. JMO lurqer