The White House Stage Manages the “Get Syria” Move
by Saul Landau and Farrah Hassen

Regardless of who assassinated Hariri, the deed focused world attention on a problematic Lebanese-Syrian relationship. Hariri's death may indeed serve to catalyze a new round of US and even some European intervention in Arab affairs. The very threat of such a move has pushed Syria to talk of withdrawing its forces from Lebanon.

But as Bush descended upon Europe last week to forgive France and Germany for being right about Iraq, Europeans indicated they would proceed "cautiously in blood," as Edmund Burke once advised.

The neo-cons awaited Bush's return to Washington so as to proceed with their foreign policy script, oozing with "sound and fury" (Shakespeare's "Macbeth"), which calls for burying judicious voices and replacing them with "noble lies."

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