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Qaida, the Taliban and even al-Shabab. --The rush to get out of
Iraq and now Afghanistan, coupled with major cuts in the U.S. defense budget, has discouraged America’s allies and emboldened our adversaries. The most per- nicious consequence of our retrenchment is evident in Syria, where Bashar As- sad’s brutal regime is per- petrating a bloodbath. U.S. influence in the re-
THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, March 29, 2012
atrocity that has claimed at least 9,000 lives. The Obama administration refuses to offer anything but rhetori- cal encouragement for the Syrian opposition. But Iran -- supposedly smarting un- der “severe” U.N. economic and diplomatic sanctions -- continues to provide a full range of economic, military and intelligence support to buttress Assad’s grip on power.
According to refugees ar-
gion is now so diminished that our government has been reduced to the role of bystander in a yearlong
riving in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon, thousands of Iranian “volunteers” and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps’
Quds force are killing Syri- ans using small arms, artil- lery and tank ammunition delivered by Iranian vessels and aircraft. The ayatollahs also have sent land mines for emplacement on Syria’s borders; dispatched intel- ligence officers to assist in locating, interrogating and torturing captured rebels; and sent technicians to en- hance Syria’s air defenses. Tehran isn’t Assad’s only
ally in the war he is waging against his own people. Un- til Saudi Arabia threatened to boycott next week’s Arab League summit in Bagh- dad, Iraqi Prime Minister
Nouri al-Maliki allowed un- inspected Iranian aircraft unfettered over-flight rights to and from Damascus. Both Russia and China consistently have used their veto power in the United Nations Security Council to stymie harsh sanctions against Damascus. And the Russian navy’s port facility at Tartus is widely suspected of being used to import banned military hardware and materiel for Assad’s army. On March 21, the day
after a Russian ship report- edly delivered special opera- tions troops to the port, the
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Security Council issued a “statement of support” for a “Syrian peace plan” being advanced by former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Seeing as the measure is meaningless, the Russians and Chinese didn’t object. The Obama administration considers this to be a great sign of progress. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said: “This is a positive step. The council has now spoken with one voice. It has demanded a U.N.-supervised cessation of violence.” Apparently, Assad wasn’t
listening. Human rights organizations report that another 500 Syrian civil- ians were killed this week in government-initiated, Russian- and Iranian-sup- ported military violence furthered by the Obama administration’s naive in- competence. For Americans, the con-
sequence of this ineptness is most visible at the pump. The Syrian catastrophe helps push up the cost of motor fuel and threaten our fragile economic recov- ery. Gasoline prices this week -- averaging $3.86 per gallon -- are nearly 10 percent higher than they were a year ago. In- dependent experts tell us we should expect prices as high as $4.50 or more per gallon by midsummer. All of this because the Mideast mess, precipitated by the Nobel laureate in the White House, is likely to get worse before it gets better.
Oliver North is the host of
“War Stories” on Fox News Channel, the founder and honorary chairman of Free- dom Alliance, and the au- thor of “American Heroes in Special Operations.”
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