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Bashar Assad, Syria's Baathist dictator, is looking mighty lonely these days
National Review, Nov 21, 2005
Bashar Assad, Syria's Baathist dictator, is looking mighty lonely these days. In response to a report finding that high-level security officials in Assad's government conspired in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri, the U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution demanding that Syria cooperate with an investigation into the matter or face "further action." That is, admittedly, a weak-sounding threat--for which we can blame China and Russia, which threatened to veto the resolution if it included mentions of economic sanctions or language calling on Syria to renounce support "for all forms of terrorist action and all assistance to terrorist groups." That such language is even controversial is further proof--as if any were needed--of the U.N.'s moral vacuity.
Still, anything that isolates Assad and weakens his prestige in Araby--as this resolution surely does--should be welcomed.
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