In OpinionJournal’s lead editorial “Serious About Syria”, we are reminded about how and why Syria is such a threat, and the editorial uses a historic reference to suggest how to deal with that threat.
And once again, liberals, yes, it is about Iraq, and yes, it proves once again how important it was and is and always will be to rid the world of tyrannical Islamist terrorist dictators and help spread freedom and democracy throughout the world. Better get used to it.
[…] But a report in the Washington Post notes that a global positioning signal receiver found in a Fallujah bomb factory “contained waypoints originating in Western Syria.”
Fedayeen interviewed by Western media say they received training in light weapons, explosives and hit-and-run operations at camps in Syria. These camps are likely financed by the $2.5 billion Saddam Hussein is believed to have stashed in Syrian banks before the war. In April, Jordanian intelligence captured an al Qaeda cell as it planned a chemical-weapons attack in Amman. That cell, too, was apparently trained in Syria.
Syria supplements its tactical support for Iraqi terrorists with overt political support. “Syria’s interest is to see the invaders defeated in Iraq,” said Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa in early 2003. “The resistance of the Iraqis is extremely important. It is a heroic resistance to the U.S.-British occupation of their country.”
In an interview in the Lebanese paper Al-Safir, Syrian President Bashar Assad was no less explicit when he offered Lebanon circa 1983 as an example of how the U.S. was to be fought in Iraq: “Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear there are ways to resist. The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it. . . . [In Iraq] the solution is resistance.”
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