Another Domino Teeters
Syria Requests Australia's Aid to Help Repair Relations with the United StatesFrom the Australian:
SYRIA has appealed to Australia to use its close ties with Washington to help the Arab nation shake off its reputation as a terrorist haven and repair its relations with the US.
Secret talks between the two nations have been under way for months but have become more urgent as rogue nations reconsider their role in allowing terrorists to thrive, in light of the US determination to take pre-emptive military action.
A Syrian embassy will be opened in Canberra in weeks and Australia is considering reopening its mission in Damascus.
Australia's close relationship with Washington, and its much higher profile in the Middle East, have prompted Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara'a and parliamentary speaker Mahmoud Al-Ibrache to appeal to Canberra to help bring their country back in from a US-imposed diplomatic freeze.
Matt's Chat
Yep...that whole war in Iraq thing was totally useless. I have no idea why we went over there... Libya is turning over a new leaf... Now Syria wants in... And it looks like there is still hope for Iran (although they are still playing the Saddam Game with their relationship with the IAEA...they people aren't too happy about that either).It is almost as if a "forward strategy of freedom in the Middle East" might be a good idea. Who's idea was that again? Oh, yeah, President George W. Bush. But I thought was just some dullard cowboy from Texas? Seems like he's gotten a few things right in the Middle East where the previous administration failed for eight years...
Mark's Remarks
We should have preempted Afghanistan in early 2001, wait, preemption is a bad policy, well, you don't understand the nuance behind this position, you silly American citizen, don't you know we libs are smarter than you and can see the clearness of our views? (I am glad they can, because all I see is spin, lies, and attacks while we are at war)
This Middle East strategy, unlike the last administration's, has gotten results. Saddam is gone, Uday and Kusay are dead-ay. The Libyans have revealed and capitulated on their weapons systems, the North Koreans have been revealed (they got the nuke tech thanks to the last admin, by the way), and the world knows that we are sticking to our guns, and will not turn away. I look with skepticism upon Syria, because they have shown much duplicity in the past, but it shows hope for the world, thanks to a dullard cowboy from Texas, or depending on which nuancing day(read lying and smearing) it is, it could be an evil genius, a dullard cowboy, or Satan. I would call him a leader, a statesman, and someone defending and exporting our way of life.
