Syria criticizes sanctions, seeks dialogue with U.S. | Globe and Mail

[Ediacara]

Syria criticizes sanctions, seeks dialogue with U.S.

Associated Press

Damascus — The Syrian and Lebanese governments criticized a U.S. decision imposing sanctions on Syria as wrong and unfair, but Syria said it still seeks dialogue with U.S. President George W. Bush administration.

Lebanon may prove to be a major loophole in the sanctions — which ban all U.S. exports to Syria except food and medicine — because goods have flowed freely across the border from Lebanon to Syria.

Importers find it much easier to operate in Lebanon's free-market economy than in neighbouring Syria, where the economy is under tight government control.

Lebanese President Émile Lahoud made clear Wednesday where his country's sympathies lay. The sanctions are “wrong in content and timing” and Syria will be able to withstand the “new injustice,” Mr. Lahoud said in a statement issued by his office in Beirut.

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[damnraddem]

1. Shouldn't the UN impose sanctions ...

on the US for its war crimes, torture of detainees, and so on?

[fbahrami]

2. Congress goes along too easily.

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The sanctions won a warm endorsement from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, while a Washington-based business group warned the move would do more harm than good for a region in need of U.S. economic leadership.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=nm/syria_usa_dc

OPINION: Congress goes along too easily. They could have debated/blocked Afghanistan and Iraq wars, but instead they all (incl Kerry, I think) just went along. The rest of the world can see thru all this and thinks that congress is either stupid or deceitful.

[newyawker99]

4. Hi fbahrami!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Danieljay]

3. Sorry, the US no longer dialogues

Either agree, submit, or be destroyed. Welcome to the new US and the PNAC!