Monday, August 3, 2009
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.
Wall Street Journal: Dancing With Damascus, Courting Syria really does require the audacity of hope. - '...The self-styled “realists” who now run U.S. foreign policy say there’s no harm in trying, but there could be if this latest American courtship turns into pressure on Israel for concessions. And conferring U.S. prestige on Mr. Assad is no incentive for him to behave less brutally at home. Mr. Obama believes his Presidency represents a fresh start for America in the world, but as nice as it would be to think so, Middle East history didn’t begin on January 20.' [It's all been tried before, but our newbie in the Whitehouse will just have to make his own mistakes. Let's just hope he learns before too much damage is done.]
