Dealing With Damascus: Isolate Assad
By Peter Brookes
Notice anything different about the recent round of diplomatic efforts to resolve Lebanon's latest crisis? Strikingly, Syria was nowhere to be found. Thankfully, for the first time in years, Damascus played no visible role in resolving a Lebanese predicament. It’s a small victory for the Bush administration, vindicating its policy of isolating the mischief-making dictatorship of Syrian strongman, Basher Assad…