Comments on: Syria's Deadly Bargain

New Republic: Why Damascus Won't Stop Harboring Terrorists, No Matter How Hard We Try

[vmdeeb]

I wonder how many tome has Mr Smith visited Syria to make him an expert on politics in Syria, or is he an ASSuming Neoconsevative ?

[presjfk]

If not for oil, we the USA would have no reason to be in the Middle East and so that should be our goal. We need to get off oil and change our economy to renewable energy. We as a nation should be country first as the Republicans say - but not as the Republicans rule. We need to go back to a time where we were isolationists. Those that want to deal with us may, and those who hate us can go to hell.

[krescera]

History teaches us that violence is a way of life with some peoples.They will pay any price for the benefit of indulging in it.The only thing other people could do is to be ready to attack to defend themselves.

[secundus2]

Speaker Pelosi''s last visit to Damascus produced nothing at all, but the new administration can "hope" that Syria will make peace with Israel, co-operate with the UN investigation of the Hariri assassination, co-operate with the UN investigation of its bombed out nuclear site, and stop offering havens and transit to armed militant groups. Syria would be wise to do all these things and turn more to the Mediterranean world than to Iran. But we''ll have to see.

[peacetoyou1]

Hezboallah, I am interested in knowing what you consider a human being to be?. Someone who will kill innocent women and children in the name of a cause/religon is not a human being, they are a animal, and should be dealt with in that manner. Only the weak attack women and children. Female suicide bombers are not human beings. The US goverment is not a saint. But where would the world be with countries like Syria in charge? Thats a very scary thought isnt it? You bring up American Indians and the bad things the US goverment did to them. Conquering armies throughout time have conquered who they could. Who is the first army in history to stop short. The US in world war 2. You bring up native land, here in the US everyone is an immigrant, that includes the American Indian. The fight over Israel has been going on for centuries and will continue. At what point do you just try to find happiness and peace for you and your family. Certainly the poverty and hardship in the middle east is a huge problem for the world. How do you help a people who have nothing but despair and poverty? What is life to you mr. hezboallah. Do you believe when you martr yourself and go to heaven 37 virgins await. I have news for you, that is not heaven, that is hell!

[hezboallah]

I know that the writer of this essay can be everything , but can''t be human being. He is one of those oriented people,exactly like dolls, full of hatred agaist arabs who want to be free of american hegemony.but there is well-known proverb in english reads"Barking dogs seldom bite"

[timothyone-2009]

Anytime I come across an essay like this one which claims to know why a particular leader has chosen to "support terror", I know immediately I am dealing with a shoddy propaganda piece. Behind every act of so-called "terror" is a person or a group which has been offended and has decided that their only defense is to kill or frighten someone who can relieve their suffering or who can force the hand of someone who can. People are not born "terrorists", they become so when they see their peaceful families killed or driven from their ancestral land. Early Americans once called the American Indian "savages" and some even called them "terrorists", but like today''s Palestinians and yesterdays European Jews, these people are simply trying to find justice in an unjust world. Those leaders who chose to support them are supporting the victim and the cause, not some goofy George-Bushie simpleton-like term of demonization.

[hezboallah]

It is clear that the US is the 1st sponsor of Mafia and terrorists in world, and that run deep and has its roots in the history of the US. No one can forget the messacres committed against native inhabitants of what is called now" the US", by the way,this counrty is on its way to collapse, and that is natural.
Counrty without ethics, counrty without morals, country depends on hegemony, domination,by milirary forces, and last and not the least country withou economy!

[oriskany4]

CBS Oliver:

Nice troll - maybe the difference is that the US prosecutes the KKK, Mafia, etc.

[hezboallah]

*It is not fair to interview man called khaddam. This man is wanted for high treason in his country. He is responsible for crimes against humanity, not to mention the nuclear waste which he brought to his country and buried it in its desert.
* There is big difference between terrorism (which represented in ''former president'' of the US, Bush,and Ben Laden)and arab resistance(represented in hezboallah, Iraqi resistance). I am not talking here about alqaeda( because It is the legitimate son of the US(we can remember how the US feeded them in Afghanistan in past) and Saudi regime ( Saudi Arabia through its wahabi system constitutes the main source of creating terrorists), through thier alliance.
thus, you can''t blame country like Syria which suffered a lot from those terroists, and was the first country to fight them.