Closer Ties
And they don't include us.
For an Invasion which was supposed to be enabling Democracy in the region, the War in Iraq seems to have instead pushed our enemies, those Axis of Evilites, to circle the wagons. Today, Syria and Iran move closer and closer.
For an Invasion which was supposed to be enabling Democracy in the region, the War in Iraq seems to have instead pushed our enemies, those Axis of Evilites, to circle the wagons. Today, Syria and Iran move closer and closer.
"The existence of common threats requires more cooperation between Tehran and Damascus," Iran's official news agency IRNA quoted [Iranian President] Ahmadinejad as saying at a joint news conference with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Assad arrived earlier in the day, the first foreign leader to visit the Islamic Republic's new president, a religious conservative who took the oath of office on Saturday following his surprise election victory in June.
"There is no limit for Iran and Syria's cooperation ... Boosting the ties can protect the Middle East region from possible aggressions," Ahmadinejad said.
Both Tehran and Damascus -- allies in the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war -- face U.S. accusations of not making a serious effort to prevent insurgents from crossing into Iraq, charges both deny.
posted by General Stan at 11:26 AM
1 Comments:
H -
It's true that Iran and Syria share deep traits and traditions with our current enemy. However, it would be foolish, ignorant, and niave at best [simply stupid at worst, but I highly doubt you are stupid] to assert that there is no direct corelation between past attitudes of traditional comrades and the current tightening of that relationship due to direct American invasions. Indeed, one needs look only at a reliable atlas to see that, yes, TWO significant bodies of land have been invaded and overthrown by American forces in the past 5 years, bordering BOTH Iran and Syria.
While your cold-war mentality might have some significance, it also has a dated and foolish tinge. The war in Vietnam was not a cold-war entity, nor is the current war. In fact, it was Americans who believed that who were burned by it.
The question of what Liberals would do seems equally foolish- a conservative cop-out to the debate; whereby you accuse the Liberal of coppingout.
The question is, and must be: What has America done to AVERT the growing threat of Terrorism in the world; has it been affective; will it provide long-term protection and impetus to change; does it enable cultural change toward tolerance, in turn leading toward freer societys in these countries and less threat toward western economic/political interests?
In fact, the war in Iraq has fueled terrorism, has provided a spawning ground for terror training on the job, and has distracted from the true dismantling of the al Queda network. It has acted as kindling to a society of verge-extremists - it is not the reason young western Islamists have taken to suicide bombings, but it is a justification.
Liberals don't want to "do nothing." Liberals, unlike what your strange, dated cold-war thinking provides, want to figure out the problem.
And then they want to solve it.
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