tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post5123661696716808503..comments2023-11-05T22:35:31.766+00:00Comments on Neil Clark: Syria: Enemy of our Enemy (1)Neil Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10479041156190090119noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-7668759294028777172008-12-03T19:15:00.000+00:002008-12-03T19:15:00.000+00:00" How can we account for the US’s extraordinary ho..." How can we account for the US’s extraordinary hostility to a country that has never threatened it? The answer is the baleful influence of our old friends the neocons. " <BR/><BR/> Correct, if 'neocons' is a euphemism for the Israel lobby - in fact it's practically a synonym. Israel's objective is to weaken and break up every Arab state, leaving itself as the only real power in the Mid E. Israel doesn't care if they're good, bad, Islamist or whatever - it just wants them weak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17766817.post-10657706530559044152008-12-03T17:51:00.000+00:002008-12-03T17:51:00.000+00:00Syria has at least five predominantly Christian pr...Syria has at least five predominantly Christian provinces, and, as you say, civil servants are given Sunday morning off to go to church even though Sunday is a working day.<BR/><BR/>Syria is in talks with Israel ("indirect" talks, but so what?), and her government is the Arab world's pre-eminent remaining bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism. There used to be another one just to the east, but let's not go into that...<BR/><BR/>Yes, Syria was behind the Lockerbie bombing. But she can always turn round and say that it was we who framed Libya instead because we needed Syria on side at the time, and we and the Libyans who sent an innocent man to the prison in which he languishes to this day.David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.com