"I think the only solution is for the United States to play the role it used to play in the past and to undertake its responsibilities as a superpower and to impose on its ally Israel, restraint," Syrian ambassador Moustapha said in his CNN interview.
With Israel's feet planted firmly in Gaza, and their continuing bombardment of Lebanon, U.S. calls for restraint are late, and are bound to be seen by Israel's neighbors as no more than the muckraking scheming of an aggressor nation bent on Mideast dominance. Unless Bush replaces the State Dept. cronies who brought us the invasion and occupation of Iraq, with credible figures actually concerned with peace and justice in the region, his pleadings and admonitions (given as afterthoughts in his transparent defense of Israel's 'right to defend itself') will only inflame the violence and recriminations and further encourage Israel in its arbitrary military assaults on its neighbor's sovereign territory.
I don't expect much from combatants who hurl missiles indiscriminately into populated areas of Israel, but I expect more from nations that profess to be so concerned with the loss of innocent life.
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