Israel playing by 'Hama Rules' according to Tom Friedman... [View All]

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"President Assad identified the rebellion as emanating from Syria's fourth-largest city — Hama — and he literally leveled it, pounding the fundamentalist neighborhoods with artillery for days. Once the guns fell silent, he plowed up the rubble and bulldozed it flat, into vast parking lots. Amnesty International estimated that 10,000 to 25,000 Syrians, mostly civilians, were killed in the merciless crackdown. Syria has not had a Muslim extremist problem since."

If Syria doesn't take out Hezbollah, Syria --like Lebanon-- will become a Hezbollah client-state with a target on its back. Bashir is smarter than that; his father certainly was.