Posted by
Joe on Friday, September 01, 2006 9:52:15 AM
Ed Morrissey is rightly
skeptical regarding Syrian leader Bashar Assad's committment to prevent arms from getting to Hezbollah.
It would be a lovely development if it were true. However, one has to
be incredibly naive to think that Syria would give up its proxy in
Lebanon just because Annan asked them to do so. For one thing, Assad
needs Hezbollah's influence in Lebanon not just to keep Israelis on the
defensive but to keep the government of Beirut hostage to Syrian
demands. Hezbollah's status as the only civil-war militia still bearing
arms is no accident.
Kofi Annan is either naively idealistic or he just isn't that concerned about Israel's security.