Sometimes you have to call out the hypocrisy.
djwudi.com > The Long Letter > Syria's political brilliance
And while Iraq wielded the propaganda tool clumsily, Syria is proving a far better foe. It’s latest move, tactically brilliant, is to introduce a Security Council resolution calling for the elimination of all WMDs in the Middle East.
The move comes as some in the US side scream about Syria’s alleged WMDs. Thus Syria’s move is nothing short of genius. If the US is truly serious about ridding the Middle East of WMDs, it should have no problem endorsing a resolution that would compell Syria to disarm. Right?
Wrong. The resolution would have the (intentional) effect of forcing Israel to surrender its nuclear arsenal — a course of action Israel would never accept. And the US, Israel’s most loyal ally, will thus be forced to veto the resolution.
So picture this — the US vetoing a resolution calling for the banning of all WMDs from the Middle East. In one fell swoop, Syria has negated the charges of WMDs against it, exposed the US’s hypocrisy on WMDs (our allies can have them, everyone else can’t), solidified its leadership of the Arab world, and forced the US to veto a seemingly common sense resolution, after blasting France and Russia for threatening vetoes on Iraq.
(via Daily Kos)
Comments (1)
Wow, sounds kind of like a chess game and now we're in check. What is Bush going to do? Actually, what are his advisors going to do? We can't go in to Syria and start another war, I don't think we'd come out as the winners and all the other Arab nations would rally against us. Anyway, I think we should get rid of all WMDs, nothing good will come out of using them, no matter who's side it's on.
Posted by lisa | April 17, 2003 6:00 AM
Posted on April 17, 2003 06:00