I suggest that no Secret Service or any other American lives be put in danger in Syria because Carter wants to play the fool. A fitting justice would be for Carter to end up like the hostages that he left rot in Iran when President.

Carter Defends Upcoming Meeting With Hamas in Syria – Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Several State Department officials, including the secretary, Condoleezza Rice, criticized his plans. Carter said he had not heard the objections directly, although a State Department spokesman said earlier that a senior official from the department had called the former president.

The State Department says it advised Carter twice against meeting representatives of Hamas, which Washington lists as a terrorist organization.

“I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the impediment to peace,” Rice said Friday, after reports of the planned meeting surfaced.

FrontPage Magazine: “While Petrodollars Propaganda showers networks in the Middle East, Europe and North America to weaken democracies’ resolve to confront the Iranian and Syrian regimes and as ‘lobbies’ in the West accelerate the campaign to break the isolation of Damascus and Tehran, these two regimes turned against their opposition in several attempts to crush them as long as the ‘window of opportunity is open’ according to insiders. The Khamenei and Assad regimes, witnessing the Baker-Hamilton report causing confusion throughout the West and taking advantage of the findings of the NIE rushed to clump down on what they consider the real dangers emerging from the inside their countries. Interestingly, and while the Iranian propaganda machine uses efficiently the Oil generated revenues to place favorable stories in the international media and impact think tanks around the world, Syrian Mukhabarat and Pasdaran operated swiftly over the past few days to shut down dissident groups and youth activities deemed ‘dangerous’ -read too close to provoke political changes”

As expected the perceived weakness because of the Baker-Hamilton report and the NIE report has lead Iran and Syria to crush their opposition. I am sure all resistance groups would like to personally thank those in Washington who stabbed them in the back.

Israelis hit Syrian ‘nuclear bomb plant’ – Times Online: “ISRAEL’S top-secret air raid on Syria in September destroyed a bomb factory assembling warheads fuelled by North Korean plutonium, a leading Israeli nuclear expert has told The Sunday Times. Professor Uzi Even of Tel Aviv University was one of the founders of the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona, the source of the Jewish state’s undeclared nuclear arsenal. “I suspect that it was a plant for processing plutonium, namely, a factory for assembling the bomb,” he said. “I think the DPRK [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] transferred to Syria weapons-grade plutonium in raw form, that is nuggets of easily transported metal in protective cans. I think the shaping and casting of the plutonium was supposed to be in Syria.”

So how do we know there won’t be more, or that Iran was not also given plutonium by the North Koreans. I don’t think anyone can say that Iran does not have nukes with a large degree of confidence. They could have even got nukes after the Soviet Union collapse.

Syria-North Korea Nuclear Nexus – HUMAN EVENTS: “North Korea may be shuttering its reactors, but based on history it will rattle the neutrons again once the economic benefits associated with cooperation dry up. More likely, Pyongyang is continuing its atomic program through proxies such as Syria. John Bolton, who also served as the US ambassador to the UN, said that North Korea may be using Syria and Iran as “safe havens” for its nuclear activity. In fact, Bolton said President Bush warned Pyongyang last year against transferring nuclear material to Syria.”

Israel’s raid must have been important enough to risk war. Likely, only a target that posed a serious threat for the Jewish state would have justified the attack and the deafening silence across the region and in Washington suggest that no state has anything to gain by publicizing the facts.Unless the US, Israeli and Syrian governments announce a contrary set of facts regarding the September attack, the evidence points to one conclusion: North Korea was supplying Syria with a nuclear reactor that could produce plutonium for a future Arab bomb.

I would think that with North Korea’s record we would not be stupid. From what I read we did not even know about the Syrian reactor until Israel presented us with the evidence. Bush has make one foreign policy blunder after another so I guess the Korean farce is just par for the course.

Now we know why all the bluster from Syria about taking back the Golan heights with the threat of war this summer. Syria was creating a diversion. Ever since Israel took out their nuclear facility they have been as quiet as a mouse. My Demented Delusional or Dumb Club of the week award goes to our State Department for how they handle US foreign policy. Congradulations!

FOXNews.com – Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei Urges Muslims to Boycott U.S. -Led Mideast Peace Conference – International News News of the World Middle East News Europe News

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader called on Muslim countries Saturday to boycott a U.S.-sponsored international peace conference on the Middle East, saying the meeting would hurt the Palestinians.

Why have a game plan if most players refuse to attend the Rice Bowl?

American Thinker Blog: Intense alarm about NoKo nuke materials in Syria: “Caroline Glick points out alarming implications of the September 6 Israeli raid on a claimed North Korean nuclear materials site in Syria. If official leaks about the IAF raid are true, the North Koreans have again reneged on their solemn promises to the Six-Nation Group to retreat on their own nuke program. Instead, they have secretly shipped nuclear weapons materials, possibly off-the-shelf fissile uranium or plutonium, to Syria, in close collaboration with Iran. “

I don’t know why we continually think that we can negotiate with insane people. The North Koreans just use our gullibility to their advantage.

FrontPage Magazine: “It is not clear in retrospect how much Israel would have achieved militarily against Hezbollah if the United Nations had not put a stop to the fighting with this resolution. Elements in the Israeli government itself, particularly Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, favored the UN-enforced ceasefire and thought Resolution 1701 held great promise for Israel. But what is clear—and was clear to some commentators from the start (for example, here and here)—is that Israel should never have entrusted its security, or the stabilization of the situation, to the Lebanese army or the United Nations, two actors by no means clearly aligned with civilization against the jihad and certainly something less than loyal friends of Israel.

Something would have been gained if it could be assumed that certain elements in Israel would finally learn from this fiasco not to place Israel’s security in the hands of foreign forces, but that is hardly the case. As for the prices to be paid, they are entailed by the further encouragement and strengthening of the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah-Hamas axis and go well beyond Israel itself. “

Israel’s leadership is delusional.

The Case for a Shah of Iraq – Bruce Walker – Aug 18, 07: “The reality is that a Shah of Iraq would be at least as legitimate as President Assad or President Mubarak, the rulers for life of Syria and Egypt, (and in the case of Assad, the heir to the throne of the Presidency of Syria) and much more legitimate that Kim Jong Il, who inherited his throne as “Dear Leader” of North Korea. “

I agree and wrote about it before. They need a strongman. They are not civilized enough for democratic rule.

FrontPage Magazine: “Indeed, although Ban Ki-Moon reported on June 29th that Iran and Syria were transferring arms to Hezbollah “on a scale [which] would allow it to reach a level of armament equal to that of last year or beyond,” LIBAT was unable to document a single seizure during its three-week visit. On July 22nd, the IDF confirmed that Hezbollah had restored its pre-war military capabilities, including long-range missiles. The UN Security Council is scheduled to meet this week to discuss the renewal of UNIFIL’s mandate, which expires at the end of the month. But having given Hezbollah a year to overcome the consequences of last summer’s defeat, there is now nothing the UN can do prevent a Third Lebanon War.”

Did any truly sane person think anything differently would happen with UNIFIL in Lebanon? The leaders of Israel never get it.

WorldNetDaily: Al Maliki in bed with the enemy: “So, Al Maliki is in Iran. What will he accomplish? Will he send the signal that he welcomes Iran’s continued interference in Iraq? Will he slyly indicate to the Iranians that he would like their help in thwarting the plan to rid his country of the terrorists and insurgents that arrive daily from Iran and from Syria? Exactly what is it that Nouri al Maliki hopes to accomplish with these overtures to the mad mullahs of Tehran and their anointed leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?”

The problem is that we had elections in Iraq way to soon. The US administration put on this facade of democracy for world consumption. Instead, we should have put a strong man in power and after he secured the country maybe there could be increased democratic rule. I would think that the strong man will arise anyways and that is what some of this infighting is all about. I doubt if Al Maliki is that man and I doubt if he will be around much longer.

FOXNews.com – Hezbollah Leader: We Have Rockets That Will Reach All of Israel – International News News of the World Middle East News Europe News: “In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said Hezbollah’s rearmament ‘is a direct and grave violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701,’ which ended last year’s war”

‘The international community must hold accountable those governments, namely Syria and Iran, who by supplying weapons to Hezbollah are deliberately trying to undermine the United Nations, the Lebanese government and peace and stability in the region,’ he said.
Nasrallah has previously said his group increased its stock of missiles since the war ended, despite attempts to keep arms from being smuggled into southern Lebanon.
In a speech in October, he said the guerrillas had 33,000 rockets — up from the 22,000 he said they had on Sept. 22.”

The questions is why would any sane person think that Hezbollah would not violate the UN security council resolution that paused the war? Israel at that time pretended like they achieved their objectives but since they were only fooling the foolish they now get to do it all over again against a more powerful opponent. The only help the UN will ever give Israel is the help to retreat.