The Bush administration has quietly authorized U.S. forces to attack Al-Qaeda bases around the Middle East–an escalation in the war on terror that Eli Lake first revealed two weeks ago in The New Republic and that The New York Times reported on this week. One of the administration’s most recent targets was Syria, where it struck Al-Qaeda leader Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih last month.
Though Syrian officials feigned ignorance at Al-Qaeda’s encampment within its borders, the reality is that the country not only tolerates the presence of terrorists, but encourages them to use the country as a safe-haven, headquarters, and transit point. Why does Syria continue to harbor terrorists, knowing that it places the country squarely in the crosshairs of the Bush administration?
What cross-hairs? What does Syria have to fear? What does Baby Assad have to fear? A few tiny cross-border raids? Bush isn’t going to do anything more, not after five years of tolerating Syria’s blatant support, funding, training, and probably arming of anti-American Islamofascist terrorists.
The author is living in a fantasy world, where other states tremble in terror of the fascist warmongering Bush/Cheney’s anger. In fact, that part of the world where Islamofascism thrives knows the truth that the Mad Mullahs of Iran and Osama bin Laden both understand: the US, under Bush, is a paper tiger. They have nothing to fear from it. If they did, they wouldn’t be waging near-open war on it. (via Instapundit).
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