Thursday, March 03, 2005

Deja Vu

The two-minute, or now more like two-week hate against Syria, as Paul Michael Wibley suggests, is uncannily like the neocon's insistence that Saddam was planning on using chemical and biological weapons to extort the US into letting him conquer the Middle East.

David Frum has one thing right. The pressure is on Syria to appease us. And as the neocons always point out, appeasement never solves anything. Like with Saddam, we will increase our demands until we reach a point where they cannot comply, and at that point, we will forget about sanctions, etc. and conquer the country.

The idea that Syria will have a revolution and will turn US friendly or that we can get a government we like without invading is ridiculous. What we will get are Muslims who want to throw all of the Christians out of the country, and they will start to do so like they are doing in Iraq.

And Joseph Farah will be shocked, SHOCKED! that this is going on.

How he thought we were to prevent it in Iraq, I have no idea, although probably he thought that we could enforce religious tolerance by simply killing lots of Muslims if the Muslims proved recalcitrant.

Paul Michael Wibley suggests that we cut off oil Syria's ability to export oil through blockade or sabotage to their pipelines. Anyone who thinks that this will lead to an internal revolution and the replacement of the Assad government apparently believes that Fidel Castro is not still president of Cuba.

What will happen if we cut off Syria's oil exports is the same thing that happened when we cut off Japan's supply of oil imports in 1941. we will be provoking them into a desperate attack on us, which will be the springboard for us to attack them.

That is all.

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