New York Post Online Edition: postopinion
FOREIGN-POLICY FOLLIES
"Last December The Weekly Standard, a voice of neoconservatism, noted Syria's involvement in infiltrating foreign fighters and weapons into Iraq and suggested bombing "Syrian military facilities," occupying the Syrian border town "which seems to be the planning and organizing center for Syrian activities in Iraq" and going "across the border in force to stop infiltration." About the first two: U.S. forces already have quite enough bombing and occupying chores. About the third: Our imperial difficulties will not be diminished by expecting to have more success sealing Syria's eastern border than we have had sealing Arizona's southern border.
Why yes, George. And by using such an an anology, we probably CANNOT bomb Syria or ANY other rogue state simply because we've seen how terrible our efforts to launch the shuttle have been, and therefore must extrapolate this incompetance into yet another comparison of apples and oranges.
Memo to the esteemed Mr. Will: If you genuinely believe Syria and Arizona to be of the same cloth then you need far more of a geographical refresher course than I can easily provide. We have if memory serves, declared war on terror, not Mexico, and debate the wisdom of that all you wish but try not to confuse the two.
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