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 | | So, Bashar Assad seems to be campaigning to join the "axis of evil." He needs to be confronted with a starker choice, bigger sticks, if he persists in this path, but bigger carrots if he makes significant progress in some of the areas of our concern. |
 | | According to my information, President Assad wanted to overhaul the whole foreign policy apparatus, but this had not been done at the end of the day, and he appointed, again, an old guardist, in order not to seem, or to give to the appearance, that he is bowing to American pressure. |
 | | Assad and others without their up-front acknowledgement that they're the elements that are willing to negotiate, which is a de facto disagreement with the very people that are blowing folks up. |
| www.free-lebanon.com /LFPNews/2003/October/panel2/panel2.html (7769 words) |
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