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...White House warning sounded ominous: Iran and Syria are trying to topple Lebanon's democratically elected government with the help of Hizballah, said Presidential spokesman Tony Snow at a press conference on Wednesday. The U.S. may paint Hizballah as nothing more than a terrorist pawn of Syria and Iran, but it remains the largest political party in Lebanon's democratic system. And attempts to topple the current government - led by pro-U.S. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora - are hardly new or secret. Ever since the end of this summer's war between Israel and Hizballah, both Lebanon's opposition...
...most part, however, the sense in the Arab world is that the U.S. is simply absent. And when the cat's away, the mice - in this case, the likes of Syria and Iran - will play...
...Haass called on the Bush team to open a regional forum with Syria and Iran-as well as other Arab countries-because they have real stakes in Iraq succeeding. He admitted that it will be difficult to make those nations join hands at this stage, given the way the war has played out. But he said that the U.S. has set far too many conditions for diplomacy-particularly in negotiations with rogue states like Iran and Syria-and needs to engage in diplomacy for its own sake. Haass said a regional forum was also needed because of the growing "militiaization...
...done enough to promote peace in the region, in a videoconference discussion hosted by the Institute of Politics (IOP) Friday. The videoconference featured Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the director of the State Department’s Office of Egypt and the Levant, whose purview includes Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. In Washington, D.C. at the time of the conference, she spoke with students and faculty using telecommunications equipment recently acquired by the IOP. Abercrombie-Winstanley, who headed the U.S. task force in Lebanon this past summer, spoke positively of U.S. involvement. She praised the State Department’s quick evacuation...
...wake of the assassination, as suspicions fall on a Syrian man, now President Cheney suspends most civil liberties and itches to invade Syria. To leftists, a government that grounds its policies in paranoia may not seem like fantasy. For others, there's fascination in the whodunit that Range weaves with his fictional talking heads from the Bush White House, the Chicago cops and the FBI. But the killer's ID takes a backseat to the infernal cleverness of the enterprise. D.O.A.P. has a surface plausibility as seductive as a good political campaign...