May 13, 2005

Syria’s been sending in terrorists who kill civilians in Iraq. This is bringing military action by our army close to the Syrian border. The Syrian government may want to wake up and notice that it’s attacking our army, which is right next door to their country, and could roll over them in one to three weeks. With our recent experience in Iraq, we would be far more experienced in installing a Democracy.

U.S. Assault Intensifies at Syria Border

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – American fighter jets flattened a suspected insurgent safe house near the Syrian border, the U.S. military said Friday, and hundreds of U.S. troops conducted house-to-house searches in remote desert villages for followers of Iraq’s most-wanted militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

The McCain/Kennedy amnesty bill:

Like the telemarketer who bilks a widow and then comes back in a different guise to charge a fee to “help” her get the original money back, the anti-borders crowd created today’s immigration crisis and is now offering as a solution the very policies that got us in this mess in the first place.

...The essence of the bill is the same as the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act: amnesty up front for millions of illegal aliens in exchange for paltry promises of future enforcement — promises that will quickly be abandoned. But in 1986, many people didn’t know that yet. There was a sense then that the law was a grand bargain — closing the back door by prohibiting the employment of illegal immigrants (for the first time ever), but tying up the loose ends of prior policy missteps with an amnesty.

“Schiavo-like woman speaks after 2½ years. Doctor: ‘I have never seen this happen in my career’.”

“The risk that a minority of senators will be able to keep the courts in the business of imposing the Left’s agenda cannot be accepted.”

Arab League Brings Its Hostility to the United States into the Western Hemisphere

The first summit meeting of Arab and South American leaders was held this week in South America:

South American and Arab leaders opened an unprecedented summit Tuesday aimed at ushering in a new wave of cooperation and undercutting the international influence of the United States.

...The leaders will hold two days of talks, and are expected to join forces by signing a “Declaration of Brasilia.”

...The draft summit declaration also condemns Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and denounces terrorism but asserts the right of people to resist foreign occupation, according to the document approved by foreign ministers Monday.

...They also lash out at U.S. economic sanctions against Syria and denounce terrorism. But they assert the right of people “to resist foreign occupation in accordance with the principles of international legality and in compliance with international humanitarian law.” The clause was a clear reference to Israeli and American condemnation of the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon’s Hizbullah.

The draft declaration states that they condemn terrorism, but at the same time opposes economic sanctions against human-rights violator and supporter of terrorism, Syria. And it supports “the right of people ‘to resist foreign occupation in accordance with the principles of international legality’”—when there is no foreign occupation by Israel, and the resistance to Israel has almost exclusively been conducted by the murder of civilians.

The hostility to Israel and the U.S. is no doubt sincere; the condemnation of terrorism appears to be lip service.