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Baker earned great admiration for assembling, along with Bush, the coalition against Saddam Hussein. A crucial component of Baker's diplomatic maneuvering was bringing Syrian dictator Hafez Asaad on board with a token force. Baker placed great importance on gaining Damascus' support to emphasize the international nature of opposition to Iraq's belligerency...
...Bringing Syrian forces into the allied coalition was no dramatic coup for the secretary of state. Hussein had long been Asaad's archenemy and the demise of the Soviet Union had left Syria badly in need of an arms supplier. Syrian involvement in the coalition reaped two billion dollars for Asaad's regime, most of which was promptly spent on North Korean scud missiles...
...Assad. You don't represent Assad, and you are not Prime Minister of Israel. Unfortunately, the Syrian position as it was expressed by Foreign Minister Farouk Shara -- "total withdrawal for total peace" -- is not very clear. I don't know what total peace is. I do know what total withdrawal is. It is not limited to Syria and Israel. It also concerns the West Bank and the Gaza Strip...
...could you apply his statements strictly to the Syrian-Israeli negotiations...
...Lebanon is a Syrian protectorate. The Lebanese dare not do anything without the approval of Damascus. We are not interested in a square inch of Lebanese soil or a cubic meter of their water. The problem there is security -- the absence of a Lebanese government that can control its sovereign soil and prevent terrorist acts against Israel. Jordan cannot have a separate peace without solving the Palestinian problem. That makes the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Israeli-Syrian negotiations the two key questions. With Syria we have a partner, and a boss who makes decisions. To what extent Assad...