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...Former colonel of the Syrian army and follower in his father's footsteps...
...darkest moments of our post-Vietnam experience, U.S. Army General Bill DePuy visited Israel. It was right after the 1973 October War, when Israeli forces defeated a series of massed Syrian armor attacks on the Golan Heights. This was a climactic battle, and the victory was close and costly...
...Syrians and the Lebanese government that operates under their influence are responsible. It's just a kind of aggression over the borders of a neighbor. It's something that we cannot agree to. And we hold the Syrian government and the forces under its control responsible for it. And we will keep for ourselves the right for response. But we will know when...
Assad's only legacies were terror and fear. He squandered his country's available resources and mutilated its economy. In the early 1980s, his army killed 20,000 innocent people in the northern Syrian city of Hama. I went to Hama last year, and I could still see the fear in the people's eyes. Some legacy! ADAM FARRA, AGE 14 Ann Arbor, Mich...
...positions may kiss his hand during working hours, then kick back as former high school buddies at night. He's working on ways to get together with his close friends and fellow Arab rulers King Abdullah II of Jordan and Emir Hamad of Bahrain; he hasn't met Syrian heir Bashar Assad, 34. Despite high expectations for this new wave of leaders, Mohammed VI cautions, "One should not think that a new generation will turn everything upside down...