Flight Pundit

We have all suspected that Syria is the two faced, trouble causing nosy neighbor over in the Middle East for a long time. Syria has a track record of aiding terrorist organizations, of aiding the insurgency in Iraq…of stirring the pot of cess over there. It’s high time someone call the Syrian government on this bullshit. Looks like, as always, the US is going to do just that:

Adopting a fast-paced strategy, the Bush administration is gathering support for a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Syria’s cooperation in an investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

The target date for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and foreign ministers to agree on a resolution is next Monday in New York.

“Everybody thinks that certainly a resolution would be appropriate with respect to this report, at least in the initial discussions that we have had among our close allies,” State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

The report, distributed last week by U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis, a German prosecutor, concluded Hariri could not have been assassinated without the collusion of top Syrian intelligence officials. Twenty other people also died in the car bombing last February in Beirut.

Syria has hotly disputed the findings as political motivated and stemming from U.S. displeasure with its opposition to the war in Iraq. Civil servants and students massed in the streets of Damascus on Monday to protest the report.

Of course we have to do this in a politically correct fashion, through the UN. Unfortunately this will go no where because of all the America-hating EuropeOns who would rather be pissed on, then see real progress made in peace…any government that forces it’s own people to come out to protest something they cannot even read about in their own media, has a PROBLEM. Using groups like Amal and Hezbollah to force the people out is typical of Syrian tactics and someday it will be talked about. Until then, we can only depend on Great Britain to be a true ally.

U.S. ambassador John R. Bolton and other Security Council ambassadors are due to meet on Tuesday. Punitive economic measures have not been ruled out.

“Let’s see how the diplomacy unfolds over the coming week or so and what action at the ministerial level the ministers decide to take,” McCormack said.

Bolton said in New York, “We will certainly insist on Syrian cooperation. This is true-confessions time for the government of Syria. No more obstruction. No more half-measures.”

What’s not to love about Bolton? He’s so…to the point and blunt. The diplomacy games will be played and will be ineffective. Why the world hasn’t learned this yet is beyond me. I don’t think the UN route is the right way to go, but I’m not in charge of these things.

Cross Posted @ ARS

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