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…ws with presidential adviser Bouthaina Shaaban and with Rami Makhlouf, the powerful maternal cousin of President Bashar Assad, who represents the financial front of the regime. Shadid was allowed into Syria for only a few hours to conduct the interviews. You have to wonder wheth...

…s, in addition to the Islam confrontation between fanatic terror and moderna , Suna and Shia, the legacy threats: Iran, Assad in syria, Hezbullah in Lebanon,Hamas in Gaza are all still active and worrying. we have to be alert and ready to strongly respond to any threat to our se...

…7 civil war, a Sunni fundamentalist takeover, or a new base for al Qaeda. Of course, there would also be an upside to Assad's demise. A brutal regime would have fallen; Iran would be denied an Arab patron and a critical window into Lebanon and the Arab-Israeli arena; Hamas woul...

…hting for his political life and for that of the regime put in place in 1970 by his father, the late President Hafez al-Assad. Forty-one years in power The rule of the Assads, father and son, has now lasted 41 years, a score comparable to that of other long-lasting Arab autocra...

…to say whether we’d had anything to do with an attack. As we he had hoped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it had ever happened, deny that he’d been trying to make a nuclear weapon, and thus feel no compelling reas...

… kind that everyone knew would surely come. Still, these were chemical weapons launched by a repeat offender, Bashar al-Assad. In any other presidency, such an atrocity would command a considered and, ideally, skillful response. Obama’s consideration had in fact been less than sk...

… August 1, 2008. It revealed that in it a group of Israeli commandos killed General Suleiman, a top aide to President Assad who had been working with North Korea to build a nuclear facility in Syria. Israel had destroyed that facility in Operation Orchard nearly a year earlier....

… it. Yes, we’d ended up fighting a kind of half-war against the Syrians which, though we’d won it, still left 30,000 of Assad’s men in Lebanon. And they showed no signs of leaving. Our main strategic threat north of the border was not, in fact, the Palestinians. Syria was in mili...

…rity. Like it or not, the military option most unpopular with America’s voters and politicians may be its best. Bashar Assad may well be our only hope in fighting the various terrorist factions that are attempting to form an ISIS state. If America agrees that putting boots on th...

…to say whether we’d had anything to do with an attack. As we he had hoped, this allowed the Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, both the space and a good reason to deny that it had ever happened, deny that he’d been trying to make a nuclear weapon, and thus feel no compelling reas...

… has been a temptation to avoid the hard choices such a process would serve up in the hope that the regime of Basher al-Assad would just go away, thereby making hard choices someone else's problem. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030209 The arrival of a new assistant to the president for nationa...

…areinthe US isanexpensive mess. How does Canadadoit? nt In Canada, “if you need help, you get it.” MORE... The US hit Assad’s forces. Now what? Is this the beginning of an ongoing move against the president of Syria, or a one-night demonstration of force? MORE... Abaseball m...