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Perhaps the strategic importance of maintaining the relatively pro-Western Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian regimes outweighed their poor treatment of their citizens. But in light of the abysmal human rights record Hafez el-Assad, America's warming relations with Syria are totally unacceptable. To cut off the hand of the Butcher of Baghdad, we have fallen into the arms of the Devil of Damascus...
...Assad had nearly 1000 political prisoners machine-gunned in Damascus after a failed coup attempt. In 1982, he levelled the old quarter of the northern Syrian town of Hama, killing an estimated 20,000 civilians. This is how Assad deals with Syrians...
...cannot trust dictators. Unfortunately, the U.S. has proven itself as willing to climb into bed with Assad's Syria as it was to consort with Pinochet's Chile, Marcos' Phillipines and even Hussein's Iraq. Nasty governments do not necessarily make inexpedient allies...
...range of political beliefs within the anti-war movement, so no one agenda will be acceptable to all. In our opinion, the U.S. government is the most powerful force stifling democracy and upholding the dictators and autocrats of the region (i.e., the Shah, Zia Ul-Haq, King Fahd, Hafez Assad and before August, Saddam Hussein himself...
...everyone agrees. "It's possible that the West can work with Assad to make a better Mideast," says a senior Western diplomat in Damascus. What is not in dispute is the notion that, with or without the West's friendship, Assad would jump at the chance to become the unrivaled leader of the Pan- Arabists following Saddam's fall. Considering Assad's success in asserting Syrian control over Lebanon late last year, his room to maneuver already appears greater than it was before the crisis erupted...