This from Ynetnews:
["The United States warned on Friday that it may soon close its embassy in Syria due to the worsening security situation, a move that could exacerbate tensions between Washington and Damascus over its bloody crackdown on protests...."]
--read the rest here.
"U.S. Embassy Attack Exposes Obama Administration's Failed Syrian Policy"--
Key excerpt:
["The Administration naively sought to upgrade diplomatic contacts with the Syrian dictatorship after abandoning the Bush Administration’s policy of mobilizing international pressure on Syria to halt its support of terrorist groups that murdered civilians in Lebanon, Israel, and Iraq, as well as U.S. troops in Iraq."
"It reversed the Bush Administration’s 2005 withdrawal of the U.S. ambassador to Syria following the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who courageously opposed Syrian domination of Lebanon..."]
--read the rest here.
Flashback 2009:
"Obama Sending an Ambassador to Syria"
Michael Rubin via National Review:
["President Obama has decided to send an ambassador to Syria after a four-year hiatus. Bush had withdrawn the ambassador (but kept the embassy open and functioning normally under a charge d’affaires) in the wake of the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri in February 2005."
"The New York Times says simply that Washington suspects Syria’s involvement. Actually, it goes beyond that: Hardly a country in the world doesn’t suspect Syrian involvement."
"This is why there is a U.N.-sponsored tribunal investigating Syrian complicity. Syria has since refused to cooperate, however, and so the lesson Obama now chooses to send is that there are no red lines or absolutes, and rogue regimes can always outlast international outrage."
All it takes is four years of defiance and then everything will be okay. No wonder Tehran and Pyongyang, let alone adversaries like Moscow and Beijing simply don’t take Washington seriously."]
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