Syria’s ambassador to the US, `Imad Mustafa, is a very nice guy and a very competent person. He is–as I told him a few times–somebody whose regime does not deserve. But I just read some of his comments about Annapolis. He was expressing his pleasure that Rice shook hands with members of the Syrian delegation in Annapolis. What? That is a sign of a US shift in policy because the Syrian regime agreed to come to a conference that is intended to ignore Syria and its Golan heights? Ya `Imad. Slow down, please. This reminds me of `Imad Fawzi Shu`aybi, the Syrian Ba`thist analyst, who said after the passage of UNSC 1559 that the resolution is not aimed at Syria because it does not mention Syria by name.
Posted on November 29, 2007 by As'ad