(Times-UK) Oliver Kamm - A UN report has found strong evidence of Syrian complicity in the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in February. None but a dedicated apologist for tyranny should demur at a strategy of confrontation. Under its dynastic despotism, Syria supports terrorists and grants them sanctuary. Islamic Jihad has its headquarters in Damascus, and Syria is known to have channeled arms from Iran to Hizballah in Lebanon. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, Syria also has "an active chemical weapons program, including significant reserves of the deadly nerve agent sarin." Whereas Western leaders have invested faith in Syria to support a Middle East peace settlement, those hopes have never been repaid. Syria's fiercely anti-Semitic leadership is clearly determined to sabotage territorial compromise.
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