Sunday, March 1, 2009

Obama Should Talk To Syria Now

Richard Haass, in Newsweek, here

"...During a recent visit to Damascus, I was told by a senior official that Syria is prepared to forge a separate peace—a bilateral agreement that would not include a resolution of the Palestinian issue. Syria also seems prepared to distance itself from Iran. The people I met in Damascus seemed far more interested in building relations with Iraq, a multiethnic Arab country on Syria's border, than in remaining close to the theocratic Shia regime in Tehran..."

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