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10/12/03 Bush Half Right on Syria Bombing I was gratified by President George W. Bush's reaction to Israel's bombing of a suspected terrorist training camp in Syria. He tends to try to occupy the middle ground, as most U.S. administrations have done, in order to seem good brokers of peace. The War on Terror has finally allowed movement toward what I've regarded all along as obviously the more moderate side, which is to defend Israel's right of self-defense against inhuman war criminals. The President rightly pointed out in the wake of the bombing, which served as retaliation against the most recent cowardly attack by Palestinian war criminals on innocent Israeli civilians, that Israel has a right to defend herself. If Syria chooses to harbor enemies of Israel, then Israel has the same right, under the Bush Doctrine, to attack those enemies even when they are within Syria's borders. To disagree with that is to declare the War on Terror an unjust war, and to empower the enemies of civilization to attack it at will and retreat to the protection of the states who are only passive enemies of peace and justice in the world. If Syria is harboring terrorists, either Israel or the United States would be justified in attacking that nation and dismantling the terrorist-coddling regime. Syria should shut up and be grateful still to have any shred remaining of its sovereignty. By all rights, it won't have it for much longer if it doesn't clean up its act. Modified: 09/10/2004 |
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