The talk in Damascus is of a bitter harvest on the border
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1551288,00.html
Syrians' yearning for change is tempered by fear of how it might come
about
David Hirst
Thursday August 18, 2005
The Guardian
'The Americans won't control their side of the border, accept our
offers of collaboration, allow us the surveillance equipment we need -
then accuse us of aiding a resistance that, they know, is basically
Iraqi, even if some foreign fighters do get over our frontiers, which -
they also know - cannot be sealed without investing resources way
beyond our means." The Syrian commander who made this lament was
deployed at Wadi Sawab, in a hilltop outpost only a few metres high,
but sited in a desert landscape so flat and featureless that from it
you could see deep into Iraq - across the berms, barbed wire, concrete
blocks and observation posts manned by 7,000 soldiers that Syria has
put up along this central and most desolate stretch of its 600km
frontier.
David Hirst
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/d3523e6755e845ff
Syria
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/e969d0bd1876c833
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