WHAT WILL THE WORLD DO?
Syrian President Assad has apparently decided to move things along in Lebanon. He is flooding the country with weapons and operatives in order to initiate a coup d’etat against he government of Prime Minister Siniora:
According to al-Seyassah, weapons are pouring into the country through the Syrian border, accompanied by terrorist groups run by Syrian intelligence. Fouad Siniora has been advised by world capitals to shut down the border with Syria to prevent a “catastrophe”.
Thousands of Syrian reservists and hundreds of intelligence agents who were naturalized during the Syrian era have entered the country and re-organized themselves. According to a diplomat from the Gulf quoted by the Kuwaiti paper, weapons are being “distributed like candy” and Syrian intelligence has returned to posts it had evacuated in 2005.
Tens of trucks reportedly delivered explosives to Hizbullah warehouses in the southern suburb. Parking lots in Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon and Baalbeck have been transformed into workshops to booby-trap cars, in an apparent preparing for a full scale civil war in the country. (If this is true, the Saudi King’s warning that he will not let Lebanon turn into another Iraq suddenly makes sense). Al-Seyassah claimed that Hizbullah moved some of their rockets to Beirut for possible use against security forces protecting the Grand Serail.
In another report, al-Seyassah detailed the sending of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians into Lebanon by the Assad regime (which, incidentally, has openly declared its support for the efforts to topple the government) to incite the demonstrators and enflame conflicts. The Assad regime also instructed its Lebanese mouthpieces to intensify verbal attacks against the Sunni mufti, Maronite patriarch, and the government. It also ordered Hizbullah to keep its blockade of the Serail.
Syrians have been arrested throwing rocks at Sunnis near where the riots broke out earlier in which at least one man was shot to death. And if any of the above reports are true, it would appear that Assad has decided to plunge Lebanon into a civil war where Hizbullah’s superior firepower and disciplined troops will make a huge difference.
What will the world do? What will the US do? This is the nation that the “realists” want to negotiate with - a country that negotiates with its neighbor by trying to murder its national leaders and initiate a civil war that could possibly kill thousands.
If Assad acts like this while talking to Lebanon, how do you expect him to be when talking to us?
The Syrian President is behaving as if he has some kind of carte blanche to carry out his illegal plans. I’d hate to think he got the idea that the US needs him so much to help facilitate our exit in Iraq that we won’t lift a finger to save our democratic allies in Lebanon. But after recently sending 200 assassins into Lebanon and widely publishing a death list and now this jaw dropping escalation, what else is one to think? The brazenness of these moves are unprecedented. He is not even trying to hide his complicity in Lebanon’s destruction as an independent state.
What will the world do? What the world usually does. Not too damn much.
We won’t do a damn thing, and Syria, Iran, et al, know it. Rest assured, however, that it will be Bush’s fault, no matter what happens.
Comment by kreiz — 12/4/2006 @ 8:02 am
On second thought, the answer is clear: bring in Jimmah Carter to mediate. Problem solved.
Comment by kreiz — 12/4/2006 @ 9:43 am
I hope we dont do anything, im sick of the US having to fix everyones problems, and then only being shit on for it by every country on earth (even most of our own).
i say the hell with it, lets let someone else try and fix it, we have our own problems.
Comment by axles of evil — 12/4/2006 @ 11:40 am
What year is it? Why is it so in style to tolerate evil and blast people who are trying to take evil on?
I don’t get it.
In other Middle East news…
What does Congressman-elect Chris Carney (D-Pennsylvania) know about Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda?
“Newly elected Pennsylvania Congressman, Democrat Chris Carney, a former Senior Terrorism and Intelligence Advisor at the Pentagon, has recently been quoted in a number of publications discussing his knowledge of and role in prewar Iraq intelligence, particularly on the issue Saddam Hussein’s links to al Qaeda. His views on the subject are a stark contrast to many in his party, particularly Senator Carl Levin, who has long expressed his belief that any link between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda was a manufacture of the Bush administration. Carney’s comments and experience on the issue may even put him in the cross-hairs of Sen. Levin’s reported investigation into the matter in the coming months. What did Congressman Carney say? What does he know?”
more here.. http://regimeofterror.com/archives/2006/12/what_does_congressman_elect_ch/
Comment by Mark — 12/4/2006 @ 1:13 pm
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