EFL
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said, "We would certainly welcome any real willingness to move forward on peace with Israel and peace in the region." But, he said, "it is hard to reconcile those kind of statements with support for violent groups that are trying to kill the dreams of the Palestinians and undermine any hopes for peace." Specifically, Boucher continued, "we have been very concerned about Syrian material and other support, financial and otherwise, for groups that engage in terrorism, particularly Hezbollah"... Boucher said "we want to see something from Syria other than periodic statements."
Syria is the new Libya - evil and duplicitous, yet powerless and irrelevant.
| Does Assad want to be the new Q-man or the new Saddam-in-a-spiderhole? |
| I don't think he's decided yet. |
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