(FrontPageMagazine) Barry Rubin - Syria was an ally of the USSR throughout the Cold War, has repeatedly sponsored terrorism, subverted its neighbors, took over Lebanon - its inoffensive neighboring country (dispatching a million workers there essentially as settlers), engaged in drug smuggling and counterfeiting of foreign currencies, massacred its own citizens, repressed internal democratic dissidents, violated with impunity UN sanctions on Iraq, rejected Israel's offer of peace in exchange for all Syrian territory captured in 1967, gave safe passage to bin Ladin's men and cooperates with them in Lebanon, passed down its republican presidency like a monarchy to the dictator's unqualified son, is hosting Saddamist war criminals and perhaps even WMD material, and is sponsoring a proxy war against the U.S. in Iraq. The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center.
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