Analysis: Assad is crazy like a fox | Jerusalem Post

Concerned Citizen: I'm on my Syria kick today.

The link below is to a good article that discusses Syria's political calculus as a troublemaker, and illustrates why our Western views of influence and negotation don't necessarily apply in the Arab World (or even worse, backfire as displays of weakness and lack of resolve) -- especially if we are not willing to follow up our words with cold steel, as:

-- we were unwilling to do in reaction to Syrian meddling and murder of our soldiers in Iraq,
--we and the French were unwilling to do in reaction to Syrian meddling in Lebanon, and
--Israel appears unwilling to do in reaction to Syrian meddling in the Israeli-Hezbollah war.

As I have said before, we (the Judeo-Christian world) will lose the war against Islamic Fascism if we are not willing to fight a total war, as WWII was fought, to unconditional surrender or defeat of our enemies. Anything short of this merely encourages our enemies.


Analysis: Assad is crazy like a fox | Jerusalem Post