Change!… Syria Holds Love-Fest With Iran & Hezbollah As US Reinstalls Ambassador
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 5:42 AM
Barack Obama nominated a US ambassador to Syria in February after a 5 year absence. The US recalled its Ambassador in the wake of the assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 and speculation over Syrian involvement. The UN investigation is still ongoing.
Iranian regime President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syrian dictator Assad and Hezbollah terror leader Hassan Nasrallah met for dinner last month in Damascus. Hassan Nasrallah (far right) has made few public appearances since 2006. This dinner was held right after US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns’s visit with Assad in Damascus.
Watching Barack Obama’s Middle East foreign policy is like watching a horror movie.
Barry Rubin at The Jerusalem Post reported:
The stories of the US engagement with Syria and the sanctions issue regarding Iran’s nuclear program are fascinating. Each day there’s some new development showing how the Obama administration is acting like a deer standing in the middle of a busy highway admiring the pretty headlights of the automobiles.
It’s like watching the monster sneak up behind someone. Even though you know he won’t turn around, you can’t help but watch in fascinated horror and yell: “Look out!” But he pays no attention.
Briefly, the Syrian government keeps punching the US in the face as Washington ignores it.
On March 1, a new record was set. The place: State Department daily press conference; the star, spokesman Philip J. Crowley. A reporter asks how the administration views the fact that the moment a US delegation left after urging Syrian President Bashar Assad to move away from Iran and stop supporting Hizbullah, Syria’s dictator invited Iran’s dictator along with Hizbullah’s leader to visit.
In other words, the exact opposite of what the US requested. Is the government annoyed? Does it want to express some anger or issue a threat?
Let’s listen. Crowley: “Well, I would point it in a slightly different direction… We want to see Syria play a more constructive role in the region. We also want – to the extent that it has the ability to talk to Iran directly – we want to make sure that Syria’s communicating to Iran its concerns about its role in the region and the direction, the nature of its nuclear ambitions…”
In other words, I’m going to ignore the fact that the first thing that Assad did after Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns’s visit was a love fest with Iran and Hizbullah. But even more amazing, what Crowley said is that the US government thinks Syria, Iran’s partner and ally, may be upset that Iran is being aggressive and expansionist. And it actually expects the Syrians to urge Iran not to build nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, as the administration congratulates itself on explaining to Syria that it should reduce support for Hizbullah, IDF military intelligence releases an assessment that Syria is giving Hizbullah more and better arms than ever before…
…Is it too much to ask policy-makers to pay attention to what’s going on occasionally?
So let’s leave it to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to sum up how things seem to Iran, Syria, Hamas, Hizbullah and many others. The Americans, he said, “not only have failed to gain any power, but also are forced to leave the region. They are leaving their reputation, image and power behind in order to escape… The [American] government has no influence [to stop] the expansion of Iran-Syria ties, Syria-Turkey ties and Iran-Turkey ties – God willing, Iraq too will join the circle.”
The US will return an American ambassador to Syria after a hiatus of 5 years.
Related… Obama talks, Syria mocks.
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bg commented:
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OT..
Iraq’s Remarkable Election
[It takes a cynical mind not to share in the achievement of Iraq's national elections. Bombs and missiles, al Qaeda threats and war fatigue failed to deter millions of Iraqis of all sects and regions from exercising a right that is rare in the Arab world. Even the U.N.'s man in Baghdad called the vote "a triumph."
On Sunday, 61% of eligible voters came out in Anbar Province, a former extremist stronghold that includes the towns of Fallujah and Ramadi. In the last national elections five years ago, 3,375 people—or 2%—voted in Anbar. The other Sunni-dominated provinces that boycotted in 2005 saw similar numbers: over 70% turnout in Diyala and Salaheddin and 67% in Nineveh, all higher than the national average of 62%. American Presidential elections rarely have such turnout.]
God Bless Iraq/is!!
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bg commented:
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Iraqis Embrace Democracy. Do We?
[In 2002, a presidential election was held in Iraq. Saddam Hussein won it by a margin of 11,445,638 to zero. "Whether that's because they love their leader—as many people said they do—or for other reasons, was hard to tell," reported CBS News's Tom Fenton from Baghdad.
You can't say they aren't fair and balanced over at CBS.
Another election has now been held in Iraq, this time involving 19 million voters, 50,000 polling stations, 6,200 candidates, 325 parliamentary seats and 86 parties. In the run-up to the vote, the general view among Iraqis and foreign observers alike was that the outcome was "too close to call." Linger over the words: "Too close to call" has never before been part of the Arab political lexicon.
But democracy has finally arrived, first by force of American arms, next by dint of Iraqi will. It's a remarkable thing, not just in the context of the past seven years of U.S. involvement, or the eight decades of Iraq's sovereign existence, but in the much longer sweep of Arab civilization. Paleontologists have described similar moments in evolution, when some natural cataclysm permits a nimbler class of animals to take the place of the planet's former masters.
Just so in Iraq: the Cretaceous period of the T Rex and the pterosaur is
at last drawing to a close. George W. Bush, in all his subtlety, was their mass-extinction event.
In the West it's a different story. Among the most remarkable trends
of recent years has been the disenchantment with the very idea of democracy.
It's a trend that expresses itself in various ways: the admiration for authoritarian (typically Chinese) efficiencies; the sense that democracies are incapable of rising to the "challenges" of health care and global warming; the distaste for the tea parties in the U.S. But nowhere has it been more consistent than in the West's commentary about Iraq.]
please go here, click on Bret Stephens: Iraqis Embrace
Democracy. Do We? – WSJ.com to view entire article..
Embedded with the Iraqi Liberation Forces
of Operation American Freedom
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Warthog commented:
Gosh, it seems that Syria respects only power and the will to use it. Maybe there is a power vacuume developing because the world power is doing a drawdown and these cocroaches are coming out? Nah, Smartpower will hit the “overcharged” button.
(Yeah, that’ll fix it…)
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Andreas K. commented:
These buggers only respect strength. Beginning on top with the mullah or imam or king, going down to the 17 year old thug who just beat up an 80 year old somewhere in Germany. They only respect strength.
But decades of leftist BS about tolerance and whatever historical guilt they think we might have, have turned our societies from strong to laughable.
J commented:
Lebanon is a lost cause. The leader, whose father was killed by the syrian, bent his knee in obeisance to assad, has given hezbollah a powerful role in the government and is a toady to iran, count that country completely lost.
Just a thought commented:
Are those country-fried goats’ eyes I see on their table?
bg commented:
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sarc on/
wonder if they discussed Obama’s Rezko predicament??
/sarc off
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Logus commented:
Turkey, Iran and Syria are strengthening their alliances with each other and Libya is tagging onto Iran’s tail. The paradigm is shifting. The Sunni Gulf Arab states power is waning. The Shias are on the rise and an alliance is occuring between the Turkic Sunnis and Iranian Shias. Furthermore, we will see a reemergence of an Islamic empire within the next decade.
Just a thought commented:
Get real, Logus. Obviously you don’t know squat about Turkey or its infrastructure.
bg commented:
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Just a thought @ 3:01 pm #10
oh i don’t know about that, sounds pretty real to me..
more here..
not to mention this..
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Just a thought commented:
I’ve seen better recreations of The Last Supper. It doesn’t say anywhere in the Bible that Jesus wore a jacket and tie for dinner. As I understood it, it was strictly informal attire. But I could be wrong.
Just a thought commented:
bg
March 9th, 2010 | 5:18 pm | #12
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Just a thought @ 3:01 pm #10
oh i don’t know about that, sounds pretty real to me..
more here..
not to mention this..
C’mon, bg, did you notice the source of that story in those two sites that you provided?
Yeah, right, like that source has any credibility. Get real. They’re about as reliable as Chrissy Matthews, Keith Olberman, Katie Curic and Dan Rather.
With the slimiest of self-serving, ulterior motives, those weasely little pricks are making irresponsibe allegations about one of our best NATO allies.
bg commented:
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Just a thought @ 8:56 pm #14
yes, that’s precisely why i posted several links..
and said i didn’t know about that
but it sounds pretty real to me..
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bg commented:
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Just a thought @ 8:56 pm #14
btw, i don’t know about the rest of Logus’ opinion.. but if you’re insisting there’s not even a possibility of an alliance between Turkey, Iran & Syria, then i think you’d better C’mon..
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bg commented:
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NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW AIR DATE: March 9, 2010
Gen. Odierno: ‘People of Iraq Have Embraced Democracy’
[SUMMARY
As Iraq counts the ballots from Sunday's parliamentary election, Jim Lehrer talks to Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, about how a new government may impact the security situation and the drawdown of U.S. troops.]
thumbsup!!
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Logus commented:
‘Just a thought’, here’s a thought. Educate yourself. I am, daily. Come back to me in five years and we’ll see who’s right and who’s wrong on my full opinion above.
bg commented:
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Surprise! Guess who’s biggest Islamic threat
[Famed PLO terrorist-turned-Christian Walid Shoebat is warning that
the United States needs to be watching not Iran, Syria or even Hamas
and Hezbollah as closely as it needs to follow the actions of the Islamic leaders of Turkey.
It was just a few months ago when Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin reported Turkey appeared to be seeking the restoration of the old Ottoman Empire.
Turkey's Tayyip Recep Erdogan
The report said Turkey's increasing disinterest in the European Union combined with its efforts to re-establish its influence in Turkic countries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan and its outreaches to Russian, Syria and Iran are cause for concern.
At the time, the shift by Tayyip Recep Erdogan, Turkey's leader, from West to East was obvious, because Turkey announced it was cutting Israel out of annual military exercises involving NATO forces while it sought out military exercises with Syria.
Now Shoebat, the grandson of the Muslim Mukhtar of Beit Sahour-Bethlehem and a friend of Haj-Ameen Al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and notorious friend of Adolf Hitler, is worried about what Turkey is saying and doing.]
when it comes to Islamic countries, take nothing for granted.. the enemy of their enemy is their friend.. Obama has weakened US, they not only see it as a victory for Islam but are emboldened to further their cause..
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