Obama's Syrian engagement policy is in shambles. The decision to return our ambassador to
Although US officials contacted by The National could not completely confirm that such [missile] technology had been transferred to Hizbollah by Syria, one official privy to intelligence briefings confirmed a story previously reported in the Israeli press that in the weeks before Senator John Kerry's visit to Damascus on April 1, Israel almost bombed what it claimed was a convoy of advanced weaponry headed from Syrian military bases to Hizbollah along the shared border with Lebanon.
"I can't promise you that planes were actually in the air, but it was close, very close," said the official. "The White House had to talk them down from the attack and promised that Kerry would use strong language" with the Syrian president, Bashar Assad.
When asked about the outcome of the meeting between Mr Kerry and Mr Assad on the issue, the source tartly responded: "In light of where we are now, what do you think?"
Besides increasing the possibility of violence along one of the world's most tense borders, the claim of new weapons transfers had also had a debilitating effect on supporters of Syrian engagement in
So what did we gain by waving off the Israelis? Another dollop of contempt. We have conveyed — both to
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