Syria and Iran: A Match Made in ....

Posted on February 16, 2005

The Associated Press shares the good news that Iran and Syria have decided to create a united front "to confront all the challenges imposed (on us) by others." The countries did not come out and specifically say "we're teaming up against the U.S." but, hey, we all know they mean us. Both countries are operating under U.S. sanctions and Condi regularly mentions how awful they both are. Does anyone here remember how the Republicans used to stand for isolationism, no nation-building and no going to war unless we made a profit? Remember those guys? Well, they're called paleo-cons or Old Republicans and they've gone the way of Dodo, apparently. The Neocons are holding the reins of the foreign policy bucking bronco and the ride is getting wilder. The Europeans are negotiating like mad with Iran over this nuclear capability thing and we're not doing a thing to help. Didn't we go down this road before with Iraq? Before we do the "let's invade first and worry about the cost later" thing, why not try some other methods first? Say, negotiations, sanctions, whatever the CIA is supposed to do in situations where we think someone might have WMDs -- like spy on them? Just a thought.