Wednesday March 25, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Syrian President Bashar Assad has a question:
What is the United States really planning on doing?

Assad wants to know what, if anything, is up the sleeve of the new administration.
Is the United States really trying to make amends with Syria or is the United States really just testing Syria?

Assad does not have the answer.

Neither does the United States.
But Assad does have a plan.
In classic Assad style, he will wait and see.

Neither President Obama nor his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, are clear as to the orientation the United States should take vis a vis certain Arab states, Syria among them. So the US is playing its own game of wait and see by laying out different possible scenarios and hoping that some country or another will swoop down and run with one of them.

Now comes the next question:
Who can wait longer?

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