Getting Serious About Syria

You know the saying: "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing?" Well, something needs to be done about Syria. For years they have, along with Iranian money, been funding and promoting a host of terror activities, primarily against Israelis. Hezbollah and Hamas both have offices in Damascus, the Syrian capital, and have coordinated attacks against Israel for years.

Now, with the U.S. led effort to rid Iraq of the butchers and vile terrorists that have plagued that nation, Syria is providing manpower and support for the insurgency that would return this nation to the control of the same people who until recently were filling mass graves and using poison gas against whole villages.

Some of the Iraqi butchers who perpetrated these crimes against humanity are now openly operating in Syria and there have long been rumors that the missing weapons of mass destruction found their way to Syria.

If the U.S. were to take action, I imagine the left in this country and the usual suspects abroad, bribed with Saddam Hussein's stolen "oil for food" money, will begin their typical catterwalling. But the cost of inaction rises each day that innocent Iraqis and American troops are killed. Shucks, where's the United Nations when you need them?


Getting Serious About Syria:

'WE WILL pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.'
George W. Bush, Address to Congress,
September 20, 2001

THE STORY was in the December 2, 2004, London Daily Telegraph, on page 14, by Jack Fairweather, datelined Damascus. Its headline: 'All aboard the terrorists' bus to Iraq. Mujahideen mosques are springing up all over Syria to arm militants and send them across the border to do battle with the hated Americans.' "