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Syria seems to be responding to the increased pressure in a clever way: move closer to Iraq while keeping up the rhetoric against America and Israel. This is quite a good idea because the US is most likely to be able to exert direct pressure against Syria through Iraq — namely, attacking Syria with Iraq for helping run the Iraqi insurgency. By cutting down on this cause (with the arrest of the 30 Ba’athists) and showing that they are ‘supportive’ of Iraq, maybe Syria can postpone the inevitable.

This really sounds like something emerging from the more paranoid reaches of the moonbat enclaves, but it’s actually what Putin thinks happened. Drudge has more. This is not a healthy sign if Putin’s advisers are this far off the target on American affairs. If they think Bush fired Dan Rather, they could well attribute other actions to the same causes that the conspiracy theorists dredge up — or even start listening to Maurice Hinchey — we went to war in Iraq for oil, the US government is run by Israel, Karl Rove is the antichrist, and Dick Cheney is a murderous cyborg, just to name a few. It’s too bad that this probably won’t make too many ripples in the world press. If Putin embarassed himself, he might consider firing his advisors. However, with the presses in many other nations as well as our own agreeing with this sort of drivel, this is unlikely.

Power Line provides another good link, this one about Europe. Definitely worth the reading.