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Time for a Syria Policy

posted on 04/28/08

Gary L. Ackerman, chairman, House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East & South Asia, opening statement, "U.S. Policy and the Road to Damascus: Who’s Converting Whom?" April 24, 2008:

“Engagement is NOT synonymous with capitulation. A peaceful Middle East may, or may not be possible; but cannot be achieved solely by holding our breath, demanding obedience, or sending in the Marines. It’s more than past time for the United States to get back into the foreign policy business. We could start by having a Syria policy again.”