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Reckoning With Syria
in response to reader comment: Congresswoman Illeana Ross-Lehtinen anti-Syrian diatribe.

Submitted by John Spencer Yantiss, Sep 19, 2007 16:57

The title of the Paul Simon song is a good commentary on Mr. Retsos' comments (actually his term for the Congress Woman's article, diatribe, far better fits his own ravings). "Racist" Mr. Retsos? That epithet has been hurled so often, and for so many decades, by unabashed opportunists like Jesse Jackson, the "Reverend" Al Sharpton, and their ilk, that it no longer holds any meaning except for those who have no real defense of their position, beyond flinging as many invectives as they can at those with whom they disagree. To paraphrase Shakespeare's famous rejoinder, "Methinks thou dost PROJECT too much."

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The US has not had real leadership since Nixon. He at least got us out of Vietnam, even though Congress... [MORE]

david elman

Sep 19, 2007 23:07

Syria, Iran, North Korea, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Queda are all the same: terrorists. America should strike at them whenever... [MORE]

Roy Winans

Sep 19, 2007 17:24

How can Ros-Lehtinen possibly be in Congress? She makes sense and is proactively forwarding America's interests. Dealing with Syria is... [MORE]

Art Fry

Sep 19, 2007 14:29

It is about time that the U.S., Israel, and Europe held Syria accountable in the strongest possible terms (and war... [MORE]

Joseph Clark

Sep 19, 2007 12:56

I don't get it. I thought Syria was our ally. Didn't Nancy Pelosi, Tom Lantos and Dennis Kucinich recently visit... [MORE]

Steven Gruber

Sep 19, 2007 10:34

Illeana Ross-Lehtinen article about Syria is so rediculous that would make Benjamin Netaniahu, the Israeli super-hawk politician, look like a... [MORE]

Nikos Retsos, academic

Sep 19, 2007 10:04

The title of the Paul Simon song is a good commentary on Mr. Retsos' comments (actually his term for the...

John Spencer Yantiss

Sep 19, 2007 16:57

About time somebody in Congress got serious about the ridiculous Assad regime. Among other things, reining him in of him... [MORE]

Yigal Kahana

Sep 19, 2007 19:53

that Israel and Syria sign the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty. [MORE]

gregdn

Sep 19, 2007 09:44

So you are going to liberate Syria just like you liberated Iraq with it's 700,000 civilian dead as a result.... [MORE]

william Alexander

Sep 19, 2007 06:15

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