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| Syria ready to talk with US on Iraq |
| 2006-11-15 |
| Syria welcomes the suggestion that the United States might seek its help to stabilise Iraq and is waiting to see whether Washington will open the way for talks with Damascus, a government daily said on Tuesday. “Syria is ready for dialogue with the United States to achieve security and stability ... and extends its hands sincerely as always waiting for a response. The ball is in their court,” an editorial in Tishreen said. “Statements on the need for dialogue with Syria and how to start addressing the problems of the region as a whole are interesting,” Tishreen said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The moment we didn't go on and smash Syria in the fall of 2003 was when things started to go wrong. A crushed, shattered, and unoccupied Syria in the full throes of civil war would have been ugly, but a magnet for every bit of bile that pooled in Iraq instead. It could have been a negative object lesson for the Iraqis, and attracted most of the bad actors who we ended up dealing with in Anbar instead. Too late now, alas. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2006-11-15 08:46 |