OPINION: Syria: Throwing up one’s hands in despair
The other day, at a Democratic fundraiser, I happened to see a well-known congressperson. I asked how this congressperson would vote on the administration’s plan to take action against Syria. “I don’t know,” he answered.
And if this congressperson, who presumably is privy to all sorts of foreign intelligence that the average person doesn’t have access to, doesn’t know, how can most people know?
In the beginning, we heard about Assad. Bashar Assad, everyone knows, is a bad guy, a dictator. He massacred thousands of people at Hama, a city that broke into revolt against his government in the early 1980s. He has helped the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon and has exercised control over Lebanon that has, in effect, taken away that country’s independence.