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Source: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040809-090612-5428r.htm
Syria's Cruel Intentions
(Washington Times) Farid N. Ghadry- On Aug. 2, the Pentagon moved U.S. troops to the Syrian border to intercept an ongoing threat to the stability of Iraq from insurgents funded by loyalists to Saddam Hussein in Syria. Syria boasts an army of 400,000 soldiers, yet most Syrian soldiers are deployed protecting sensitive infrastructures essential to sustaining the rule of the Assad clan. U.S. armed forces stationed less than a two-hour drive from Damascus will create the impetus to help the moderate majority Sunni in the country to take control. The writer is president of the Reform Party of Syria.