Per Reuters:
Syria has severed military and intelligence cooperation with the United States, its ambassador to Washington told The New York Times in an interview published on its Web site on Monday.The ambassador, Imad Moustapha, told the newspaper in an interview given last Friday at the Syrian Embassy in Washington, that his country had, in the last 10 days, "severed all links" with the U.S. military and Central Intelligence Agency
Not that I am any kind of a fan of Syria, but that's not good news.
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After 9/11/01, Syria was about the only country that could provide helpful info to the US on Al Qaeda.
(It was and is a notoriously hard group to infiltrate.)
Yet Bush was so intent on invading Iraq (which had no terrorists--until the US Army got there, and provided a recruitment tool), that he gave up this invaluable source.
This goes to show that Bush is really, really not interested in eliminating terrorism. In fact, it could be said he loves it, since it is the only reason he is still in office. He no more wants to eliminate terrorism than the DEA wants to eliminate drugs: without it he would be out of a job.
Bush is interested in Empire; and as long as the US is an Empire, we will have terrorists (read, people fighting for freedom in the occupied territories).
The good news is: all Empires fall. They are always based on an unviable economic system (exploitation), the Army always figures out that it is easier and safer and more profitable to meddle in politics at home rather than keep down the insurgents abroad, and those insurgents, sooner or later, win.
Posted by Paul Schumacher | May 24, 2005 10:08 AM