Watch Your Back
February 28th, 2005 - 12:11 pm
Talk about looking for trouble in the wrong direction:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said he thought Washington might eventually resort to military action against his country.
“Washington has imposed sanctions on us and isolated us in the past, but each time the circle hasn’t closed around us,” Assad told Italy’s Repubblica newspaper.
“If, however, you ask me if I’m expecting an armed attack, well I’ve seen it coming since the end of the war in Iraq.”
Don’t worry about Washington, Baby Assad. Worry about Beirut — and maybe Damascus.
Karl Rove’s evil genius extends all the way to Beirut?
Different Strategy = Different Results
I don’t think that I have ever read a clearer refutation of the past twenty years of “change your attitude or we’ll issue yet another sternly-worded condemnation” international affairs. Via Vodkapundit we get a Reuters report with a very telling quote: