In fact, I did answer exactly that. See my post #39, first paragraph, I believe.
International law doesn’t say anything clearly, dear.
In any case, Iraq is not US territory, and Syrian cross-border raids do not have anything to do with the US. You don’t get to borrow someone else’s sovereignty just because you’re an occupying force.
If the Iraqis want to invade Syria, that’s their business.
My concern is with the timing of this raid. We pick a fight with Syria on the eve of the US election? Hmmm.
Could you cite that, please? I was under the disticnt impression that Syria is a Hizbollah-harboring puppet state of Iran.
If Syria were in al-cahoots with Iran, that would AlQ their enemy, seeing as how Iran is predominately Shia and AlQ is centered around a fanatical anti-Shia Sunni sect.
Hardly a puppet state. Syria and Iran are partners out of necessity, more than anything else, and this is a pretty recent development. They have very different interests, particularly since Syria is a mostly secular state.
Indeed, Syria has often had its own issues with Islamist terrorists; the Muslim Brotherhood seized control of Hama in the early 80s, and were summarily put down.
Wait a minute, who said anything about Al Qaeda? Syria…Hizbollah…Iran…all Shiites.
Just saying that Syria would have no difficulty covertly siding with the US against AlQ.
This really, really, famous case discussed at length here and in media all over the world.
Getting dictatorial regimes to torture ‘suspects’ is what Extraordinary Rendition is all about.
Isn’t Syria’s government Baathist, in common with the former government of Iraq? That would make them officially non-sectarian (the government itself), but practically Sunni.
Not exactly. The stated Ba’ath position is one of (pan-Arab) inclusion, rather than Sunni dominance; the Iraqi and Syrian Ba’ath movements split over this in the sixties.
Thank you! I had no idea of the split. I assume from Saddam Hussein’s oppression of Shi’ites in Iraq, that it was the Iraq Ba’ath party that gave up the ideal of pan-Arab unity.
Not the ideal, just the actual practice. I’m pretty sure they still claimed to be pro Arab unity.
Another complicating factor is that while most Syrians are Sunni, the Assad family is of the Shi’ite Alawite sect.
I’ve read that before. For some reason that didn’t really pop into my head. I was thinking of a spirit of true cooperation, a joint effort, not a prisoner-dumping ground arrangement.
Those aren’t terrorists, they’re Minutemen.
I’m a freedom fighter, you’re a vigilante, he’s a terrorist…
So after the Bay of Pigs Cuba took out a condo development in Florida, and possibly killed three innocent American kids. Would that be kosher?