US Orders Syria to Do the Impossible (Paul Craig Roberts)

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US Orders Syria to Do the Impossible

by Paul Craig Roberts
Is there a person anywhere in the world who still thinks there is an ounce of sanity in the Bush administration? If so, let that person read John Bolton's orders to Syria in the Jan. 24 online edition of the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz.

Bolton is Bush's unconfirmed ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, a neoconservative warmonger, has managed to get the UN Security Council on Jan. 23 to instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias. Bolton says, "I hope in Damascus they read it very carefully and then comply."

How is Syria to meet this demand?

Last year, Syria complied with U.S. demands to withdraw its troops from Lebanon. As Syria has no military presence in Lebanon, it could not disarm a local police force, much less the Shia militias that defeated the Israeli army, drove it out of Lebanon, and have representatives in the Lebanese parliament.
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=8439

[OneBlueSky]

1. what gives the US the right to order Syria to do ANYTHING? . . . n/t

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[LynnTheDem]

2. "instruct Syria to disband and disarm the Lebanese militias"

What the fuck...??!

How about he instruct Syria to stop that socialist medical health care system in Canada too. And Syria should make abortion illegal in the entire world.

And gee, I bet rightwingnuts can come up with thousands of similiar impossible things for Syria to do!

Rightwingnuts; insane MFers.

[bemildred]

3. The actual UN news item for those interested:

with a link the the statement:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=17263&Cr=middle&Cr1=leban

The statement is titled:

"SECURITY COUNCIL NOTES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN LEBANON, INCLUDING WITHDRAWAL
OF FOREIGN FORCES, HOLDING OF PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN 2005"

and it is here:

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8616.doc.htm

[sarcasmo]

4. Looks like Syria might get attacked before Iran.

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5. Here's the HAARETZ article

"This is a clear, unanimous signal from the Security Council of what Syria still has to do. I hope in Damascus they read it very carefully and then comply with Resolution 1559," said John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the UN.
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/673884.html