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To: Road Walker who wrote (269976)	1/25/2006 2:28:14 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572264

US Orders Syria to Do the Impossible by Paul Craig Roberts Is there a person anywhere in the world who still thinks there is an ounce of sanity in the Bush administration? If so, let that person read John Bolton's orders to Syria in the Jan. 24 online edition of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz. Bolton is Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, a neoconservative warmonger, has managed to get the UN Security Council on Jan. 23 to instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias. Bolton says, "I hope in Damascus they read it very carefully and then comply." How is Syria to meet this demand? Last year, Syria complied with U.S. demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. As Syria has no military presence in Lebanon, it could not disarm a local police force, much less the Shia militias that defeated the Israeli army, drove it out of Lebanon, and have representatives in the Lebanese parliament. After three years and unimaginable expense, the superpower American military has proved that it cannot disarm the recently formed Iraqi militias. Yet the idiot Bolton thinks puny Syria can disarm the Lebanese militias that defeated the brutal Israeli army! Syria was never in Lebanon as a conqueror or invader, as the U.S. is in Iraq and Israel is in the West Bank and Golan Heights. Syria was invited into Lebanon by the Lebanese government for peacekeeping purposes, adding the weight of its military to indigenous militias in order to create stability where U.S., Palestinian, and Israeli bungling had brought disorder and massive bloodshed. Until they were withdrawn, the Syrian troops were a counterweight to the Shia militias. Now that the Shia crescent is spreading from Iran through Iraq to Lebanon, the stupid neoconservatives are confronted with the error of their ways. The Bush administration was trying to set Syria up for U.S. attack by demanding that they withdraw from Lebanon. The neocons thought Syria would refuse and thereby become a target for demonization and invasion. Alas, the Syrians departed. And now the problem is how to turn back the Shia advance, which is increasing in power inside Lebanon as well through the Hezbollah and Amal movements. Bolton's solution is a ridiculous attempt to turn Syria into a neocon proxy and to set it at war with the militias. Otherwise, Bolton intends to damn Syria for "noncompliance" and again threaten them with U.S. invasion. It will be interesting to see who Syria fears most, the militias that triumphed over Israeli military might or the U.S. forces that have been defeated in Iraq. comments on this article? send them to backtalk! 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To: Road Walker who wrote (269976)	1/25/2006 2:40:55 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572264

re: During the past 5 years, were you aware that Iran was offering any of the above cooperation to the US? I wasn't. No, I wasn't. Shocking, eh? I also was surprised to read this article, but my first inclination wasn't "shock", its that the information is wrong. Don't believe something that sounds like BS just because it is written down....