Syria Gives Scuds to hezbollah

Our enemies are increasingly emboldened to act aggressively because this president projects weakness. Yet this administration won't change course.

Syria Gave Scuds to Hezbollah, U.S. Says
JERUSALEM—Syria has transferred long-range Scud missiles to the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, Israeli and U.S. officials alleged, in a move that threatens to alter the Middle East's military balance and sets back a major diplomatic outreach effort to Damascus by the Obama administration.

Israeli President Shimon Peres on Tuesday publicly charged President Bashar Assad's government with transferring Scud missiles to Hezbollah's forces inside Lebanon. Syria and Hezbollah both denied the charges. But the allegations already are affecting U.S. foreign policy: Republicans pressed on Capitol Hill to block the appointment of a new American ambassador to Damascus, according to congressional officials. The White House said it was pressing ahead.

Of course they are. What else can we expect from the obama administration but to reward enemies and their aggressive behavior.

"President Barack Obama has made engaging Mr. Assad's government a cornerstone of his Mideast policy, hoping to woo Damascus into a regional peace process and lure it from a strategic alliance with Iran".

Reaching out to the muslim world and their terrorist-sponsoring regimes is working out real well.

"The Bush administration had increased sanctions on Damascus and pushed a United Nations-backed investigation into the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri; Mr. Obama's aides said these measures just drove Syria closer to Iran".

Blame Bush in order to whitewash the failure of obama's own appeasement policy towards Syria.

So according to the logic of the obama administration, the way to deal with a tyrant like assad is to simply allow him to get away with murder lest we push him to become even more of a terrorist. This is the logic of liberals in dealing with islamic terrorists as a whole, which is not to fight them because doing so would only anger them into committing further terrorism. Assad of course was already close to Iran.

"A senior U.S. official involved in Mideast policy said Washington was uncertain why Mr. Assad would escalate tensions with Israel. But in recent months, Israeli and Syrian officials have publicly charged each other with preparing for war. The U.S. official said Syria's arms transfer could have been meant as a form of deterrence".

So according to the obama administration Israel is the aggressor and Syria is simply preparing to defend itself. Revolting. This sums up the perverse world view of obama and his cohorts. I'm sure they really believe that Iran is only developing nukes to protect itself from Israel.