Friday, February 26, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Michael J. Totten: Must We Waste Another Year? - '...Syria has been cunningly outwitting Americans and Europeans for decades, and most Western leaders seem entirely incapable of learning from or even noticing the mistakes of their predecessors. Assad is so sure of himself this time around -- and, frankly, he's right to be -- that he's already announced the failure of President Obama's outreach program. Yesterday he openly ridiculed the administration's policy in a joint press conference with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Syria will not abandon its alliance with Iran, nor will it cease and desist its support for terrorist groups, until at least one of the two governments in question has been replaced...'
