Comments on: Could Syria Hold New Solution To Iraq?

Exclusive: Syrian Vice President Says Syria Could Prove Key In Ending Violence

[educates]

Even in Johnson's Vietnam war we negotiated. Of course thousands of troops died while they were deciding on the shape of the table and who sat where. Point is:
1. The war is not winnable militarily.
2. The war must be decided diplomatically.

Kinda stupid not to talk, don't you think?

ed u cates

[exusmcsgt]

Main reason - we need Iran to meddle in Iraq because it will only justify further our bombing of their nuke facilities.
Posted by badaxmofo at 09:30 PM

I know you offered this "tongue-in-cheek". But you are not that far off.

The neocons are scurrying to try to mitigate Iran's expansion of their sphere of influence into Iraq after the neocons took out the guy who kept Iran out for decades.

You want to talk about stupidity? The neocons gave Iran what it could never achieve on it's own with Hussein in the chair.

[exusmcsgt]

The moral to this entire story: the West can't really rely on or trust anybody in the ME
Posted by badaxmofo at 09:26 PM :

As if those in the middle east can trust the neocons or whether even we can here at home.

[grazinggoat]

I recently posted a comment on how political decisions are taken in Jerusalem. Washington is only a branch to the decisions-center in Jerusalem. Here is a link to user-friendly ynetnews of Jerusalem.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3359081,00.html

Pere went to Qatar an Arab country where relative modernity is evident. Invited the Arabs to make a move toward peace.

Actually Israel should be more than happy to make peace with its neighbours. It's in big need of that peace. It needs not be threatened from North, or North-East. A potential solution is to give the Sunni part of Iraq to Syria in counter-part of Golan Heights to Israel. Syria is not interested by annexing the Iraqis. It wants back it golan heights.

Israel has to bend a bit and give back a big chunk of the Golan Heights. Will that be possible? Israel has no other choice but to go this way. Its political class has been battered badly in Israeli public opinion and need to grab this opportunity in order to regain this public that is leaving Kadima for Benjamin Netanyahoo!s likud party...

[frankly6]

Bush, through his mismanagement of the war, has put us in a place where we have to negotiate with Syria and Iran. Unfortunately he's too proud and stuborn to do so. It may not be a good solution but we ran out of good solutions weeks ago. We will soon run out of bad ones too if we don't get some competent leadership.

[j-whitman]

Badax, Ourtomorrow,,,
- During the State of The Union Adress where Bush is supposed to give America the truth,,, He lied about LA library terrorist plot & the busting up of a South East Asia terrorist plot (It was stoped in 1995).

[exusmcsgt]

It is a sad day when members of the American public become so desperate that they want the American leadership to go on bended knee to Damascus.
Posted by ourtomorrows at 08:16 PM

It's a sad day when people in this country think that conversing with an adversary means bending a knee.

You obviously think we should only talk to our friends and not our adversaries.

Thank goodness that there were more savvy and mature people involved back in '62 with the near showdown with the USSR over Cuban missles.

If you'd been involved, none of us would even be here now.

[z4all]

will you people wake up...Syria is just as much the enemy as Iran or Saddam was...but your so worried about leaving Iraq you'll take any little whimpy *** to get out. LET'S GROW A PAIR and FINISH THIS!...

[j-whitman]

Walking Liar Bush was told 6 weeks ago in order for his "Surge" to work he has to engage in diplomacy with Syria & Iran.

[j-whitman]

Badax, Ourtomorrow,,,, Before you blindly spew your Bush rhetoric, read this -

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16877295/

[ourtomorrows]

Hmm, so Syria is the good guy now, all willing to help us bring peace to Iraq. Are you people nuts? An autocratic regime that has poured lord knows how much money into supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, but now they are the ones who can bring peace to Iraq? Serve as intermediaries with the very people we threw out? And of course, we can trust Syria, we can trust the Baathists who are fighting tooth and nail to regain their power. any deal we could make with them would of course be in the best interest of the Iraqui people. What kind of dream world are you people living in?

It is a sad day when members of the American public become so desperate that they want the American leadership to go on bended knee to Damascus.

[timberagain]

If bush disregards this, and his administration doesn't thoroughly research it as a possible solution, he must go.

[j-whitman]

Amazing,,, 4 years into a failed war, someone finally looks at this question ??? Talk about a day late & a dollar short.