Should US Follow Baker-Chamberlain Group Recommendations?
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I don't trust this guy at all.
He should not be trusted.
A little bit of info about him.
Baker Was a Principal in the Bin Laden Carlyle Group
James A. Baker III--the enabler of the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, and the Butcher of Beirut, Hafez Al-Assad--is back to his old tricks. If a policy doesn't work, why try it again, and again, and again. I thought that was the definition of insanity.
Baker, who served Presidents George H.W. Bush as Secretary of State from January of 1989 to August 1992, was one of the architects of the "Syria is the key to peace" theory. He enlisted Syria's support in the Gulf War and saw Syria as the lynchpin in an Arab-Israeli peace agreement. In order to get Syrian acquiescence in the Gulf War, Baker stated, last Sunday, that he had made 15 trips to Damascus.
He also gave Hafez Al-Assad a green light to do what was necessary to control Lebanon in 1991. This was followed by the execution-style murder of 600 unarmed Lebanese Christian soldiers who were prisoners of the Syrian Army.
(It seems that the murder of unarmed prisoners is a proud tradition of the courageous Syrian Army. After the 1973 "Yom Kippur War," a Syrian soldier who had slit the throats of more than 100 Israeli prisoners--who had their arms tied behind them--was given a medal for heroism before the Syrian Parliament. This medal was awarded by Mustafa Tlas, Syrian Defense Minister. Tlas, who is still Defense Minister, is the proud author of the book, "Matzoh of Zion," which perpetuates the blood libel against the Jewish people. It is interesting that this blood libel was refuted in a Papal bull by Pope Innocent IV in 1247.)
The Syrians also agreed to participate in the Gulf War effort, which they did by sitting in an army camp in Saudi Arabia, while U.S. Forces did the bulk of the fighting. The brave Syrian troops did not participate in combat or fire one shot in anger.
Who can forget the anguish on the face of the late Ambassador Philip Habib, the distinguished Lebanese American diplomat, when he left the State Department offices? He had gone there as the head of a delegation of Christian-Lebanese Americans to plead for the fate of his fellow Lebanese Christians. Habib said, "They are totally controlled by the Syrians," regarding his former State Department colleagues.
After Bush I left office, the State Department continued Baker's policy of appeasing Syria. Secretary of State Christopher made more visits to Damascus than to any other national capital. For all of our efforts, we were rewarded with a visit by the Syrian Foreign Minister to Camp David, where he met with Israeli Prime Minister Barak, under the aegis of President Clinton. The Syrian neither spoke with or even looked at Barak for the whole weekend meeting.
When the Gulf War started, Baker initiated a campaign to encourage the Kurds and Shi'ites to revolt against Saddam Hussein. Yet, at the conclusion of the war, he allowed the Iraqi army to retain its combat helicopters and heavy weapons. Saddam Hussein then proceeded to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Kurds and Shi'ites. He flooded the South of Iraq to destroy the communities of the "Marsh Arabs." (Please see the book, "Cruelty and Silence," by Kanan Makiya, and the article, "A 1991 Kurdish Betrayal Redux?" by Najmaldin Karim, MD, in the December 2, 2006 edition of The Washington Post.) It is because of Baker's previous betrayals, that we are so distrusted by the people of Iraq. This is undoubtedly one of the important causes of our problems there.
Fast forward to the 21st Century. Baker's Iraq Study Group (ISG) is filled with irrelevant figures, like former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor--who is obsessed with a paranoid fantasy about a "right-wing assault on our courts"--and Washington fixer, Vernon Jordan. Its expert list is stacked with Arabists and anti-war activists. (See "James Baker's Stacked Commission," by Michael Rubin in the 10/25/06 issue of The Weekly Standard.)
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