Comments on: You Can’t Be Syrias!!

By: Beckie

Beckie — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 05:21:08 +0000

Daddy had the wall falling down, now Junior is looking for his own historic freedom and democracy shtick.

By: DD

DD — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 05:51:37 +0000

One source says:

Syria’s main interest, apart from regime survival, is to maintain its enormous influence in Lebanon. This is a financial as well as strategic issue: The Syrians make a load of money doing business in Lebanon, and they don’t want to be replaced by foreign businessmen. To our minds, this might have been a significant factor in the Feb. 14 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. The universal suspicion is that the Syrians were behind the killing: They feared that al-Hariri, whose wealth made him one of the most powerful men in the nation, was trying to pry Lebanon loose from Syrian control. The thinking is that the Syrians took him out, possibly using the Iranian-controlled Hezbollah. We regard this as fairly sound thinking.

http://www.stratfor.com

By: rajeev

rajeev — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:46:10 +0000

so it was all a setup by internal affairs.

i mean, did you see the way emile was looking at mindy.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:26:11 +0000

what’s the purpose of U.S. influence or intervention or whatever? I am too ignorant on most middle eastern countries to know of any motivation on the part of the U.S. for an intervention other than say oil…like abogado stated…”who benefits?” yes, I know that stating “oil” as the only purpose for U.S. involvement in the middle east is oversimplification of U.S. motives but profit always plays a role in whatever military or covert action that takes place.

By: myke

myke — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:54:54 +0000

i’m no george w. fan but i think it’s just as premature to think there’s a big kabal of us interests behind hariri’s assasination as it perhaps was to blame the syrians. the syrians have long had a pompous belief that they could do no wrong in lebanon due to one compelling fact: they did stablize the nation after the lebanese civil war. they simply never left. the government that recently resigned was a hair’s breath away from being a puppet government for bashar assad and hariri was fairly detested by the syrian government. it’s not hard to believe they had something to do with the assasination if you take into account that they likely simply didn’t believe they backlash that would be created due to their longstanding defacto control over their eastern neighbor

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:52:13 +0000

I just got the title of this post, just now.

By: Abogado

Abogado — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:28:07 +0000

That was my first thought on the matter too. They were instantly blaming Syria even though it more than likely had nothing to do with the Syrian government; it certainly wasn’t in their interest to kill the ex-prime minister that all the Lebanese seem to love. I think you can learn a lot by asking: “who benefits?” and it clearly wasn’t the Syrians.

You ever see The Quiet American? I wouldn’t put it past em.