Observing Syria's Slaughter

The regime of Bashar Assad rightly belonged but mysteriously was not included on the last President Bush's Axis of Evil. Damascus hosts a number of terror organizations that have murdered innocents and have American blood on their hands. Syria fueled the insurgency against the so-called US occupation (more rightly termed liberation of Iraq). Syria has effectively dominated Lebanon and likely had a hand in the murder of Lebanon's popular independence leader Rafiq Hariri. Syria was probably the repository for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction which could easily have been transferred across the Iraq-Syria border in the long run up to the US invasion of Iraq as Iraq's thwarting successive United Nation's resolutions made that conflict inevitable. Syria certainly has weapons of mass destruction production facilities of their own and may have covertly been attempting to produce nuclear weapons until Israel bombed a facility being constructed with the aid of North Korea, another member of the Axis of Evil. Neither Bashar Assad nor his late dictator father in the dynastic tyranny broached any dissent. And yet the Obama regime returned a US ambassador after the position had been abolished during the Bush administration as a reproach for Syria's bad conduct. Bashar Assad continued acting counter to America's interest while advancing Iran's evil agenda. Yet recently, America's Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Bashar Assad a "reformer". Even after Bashar Assad's thugs murdered peaceful protesters on the street, all our State Department could muster was a mild rebuke. Yesterday, Assad forces killed eighty-eight civilians and finally the Obama administration shows America's indignation. Bashar Assad is in no way a reformer and deserves the fate of fellow despot Saddam Hussein. Just like the Libyan people, long suffering Syrians deserve freedom.