European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday november 2, 1994 commentary the stars and stripes Page 15 Cli Ritorti visit to Syria strengthens d . Rosenthal since president Clinton had to conclude his pilgrimage to Syria without getting any decent peace news Breaks for his trouble or time to take the exciting tourist trip to the two dozen torture Cen ters of Damascus or the mortar ranges of the Rich variety of terrorist Camps thought he might be in the mood for a Nice hasidic villager Dies and it Falls to the rabbi to make the Eulogy. He cannot bring himself to Shade truth while Wear ing a prayer shawl so he Tell sit to heaven straight theman lying Here was a killer thief a rapist and goodbye to bad in the congregation hollers out can t you think of one Good word to say about him the rabbi thinks nods and lifts his eyes , o lord he says just wait till you have to meet his brother or. Clinton the Man you honoured and strengthened with a visit from . President is the brother of the Man against whom you so recently dispatched . Assad and Saddam Hussein Are both longtime dictators of one party states. Both make death the Price of dissent thousands upon thou Sands of deaths by Bullet or noose for the Lucky by the flaying of the flesh for others. Both support terrorist gangs that prey on civilians around the world. 4and both have mounted wars of colonization against their neighbors. The unite states and allies flew to push Saddam Hus Sein out of Kuwait. They did nothing to Stop Syria s War against Lebanon. Clinton s visit accentuates the West s Placid acceptance of the Conquest of that Lovely land and its talented people. A so there is one difference after All. Saddam has shown himself to be stupid a loser. Assad is Only lost once to the israelis who now Are ready to give Back the same com manding Golan Heights Syria forfeited in 1967. , you might say As Clinton did on the flight from Damascus that at least i i swear to these pests get bigger every yen Assad always keeps his word. You might but it is not so. This Mideast fairy tale comes from the fact that Syria has generally observed the 1974 separation of forces agreement with Israel. The pact was a historic achieve ment for Henry Kissinger but the israe Lis could then have clobbered Syria with the Golan Heights in their command arid the Road to Damascus leading straight an Short from Syria beyond the peace process an important forthcoming Book by Daniel pipes editor of the Middle East quarterly the author Points out that Assad broke other military agreements with Israel. In 1976, for instance Syria violated its pledge not to station aircraft surface to air missiles or More than one brigade of soldiers in Lebanon. But the real danger and delusion Are the whole us. Approach that Syria is important Only in relation to Israel As pipes details. That concept obliterates Lebanon and the three times Assad made International promises to get out and broke them. It helps the syrian dictator destroy his peopled he builds his armed Power steadily not just against Israel but the enemy so dreaded by All dictators his own country men.-,--./ Syria and its iranian ally do not maintain terrorists just against Israel but against the West i understand Israel wants to subcontract to Syria the con Trubl of Hezbollah forces or Lebanon now firing on the israeli army. But that will not Stop the murder of israeli and Western civilians by Hezbollah Hamas islamic jihad and a dozen similar terrorist groups maintained by Syria. Ter Rori nation of civilians is part of Assad s method of operation of is not the duty of american presi dents to destroy All foreign it is their duty not to strengthen them. Clinton said it magnificently i Milwaukee on oct. 1,1992, when running for president. I l _ but from morning to morning we do not know if he will oppose a dictatorship As he did in Iraq and Haiti or assist one China and Syria when president Reagan was about to visit Pitburg where German is troops arwied Elie Wiesel pleaded with him j place or. President is not your has been to his Pitburg and beyond. In Damascus the local is is hot buried but at work every moment those places Are not his places. Comeback to Milwaukee. C Noyori
