WHY THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES SHOULD REFRAIN FROM INTERVENING MILITARITY INTO THE SYRIAN CONFLICT: WHY FOREIGN POLICY INTERESTS OF WESTERN STATES SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER GENERALIZED HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS -- WHY WESTERNERS MUST VIEW SYRIA STRATEGICALLY, PUTTING A PRIORITY ON THEIR OWN SECURITY -- GEOPOLITICAL DISADVANTAGES OF A PROTRACTED CONFLICT IN SYRIA -- GEOPOLITICAL ADVANTAGES OF SUCH A CONFLICT

THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, WESTERN MEDIA SOURCES, & BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S MOST PRODIGIOUS PROPAGANDISTS:  THE DIFFICULTIES OF ACCURATE NEWS REPORTING IN SYRIA -- PRO-ASSAD PROPAGANDISTS & CONSPIRACY THEORISTS -- THE ANTI-ASSAD OPPOSITION & THE ISLAMISTS -- WIDESPREAD VIOLENCE -- JIHADISM -- THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM

PORTRAYING SYRIAN CHRISTIANS AS PROPAGANDISTS FOR THE BASHAR ASSAD REGIME:  DISSEMINATION BY NIZAR NAYOUF & AL-HAQIQA OF FALSE CLAIMS OF MASS PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN SYRIA BY THE OPPOSITION TO THE ASSAD REGIME -- ATTRIBUTING SUCH UNSUBSTANTIATED STORIES OF CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION TO "CHRISTIAN SOURCES" IN SYSIA, CREATING THE RISK OF INFLAMING ANY PRE-EXISTING ANTI-CHRISTIAN SENTIMENT IN SYRIA & TURNING THE CLAIMS OF MASS PERSECUTION INTO SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECIES -- AL-HAQIQA AS A PRO-ASSAD SITE

HARTFORD SEMINARY'S HIGHLY QUESTIONABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH RADICAL ISLAM:  HARTFORD'S LEADING POSITION AMONG AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL FACULTIES THAT ACCOMODATE ISLAMISM, AN ACCOMODATION WHICH EXTENDS TO THE MURDEROUS REGIME OF SYRIAN DICTATOR BASHAR ASSAD -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HARTFORD SEMINARY & THE AL-FATIHA ISLAMIC ACADEMY IN DAMASCUS, WHICH IS APPROVED BY & ALLIED WITH THE ASSAD FAMILY, AGGRESSIVELY PROMOTES SHARIA-BASED FINANCE (ISLAMIC BANKING), & DENOUNCES THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM -- NEED FOR A THOROUGH EXAMINATION OF HARTFORD'S MUSLIM CHAPLAINCY PROGRAM

THE SYRIAN UPRISING AGAINST BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S BAATHIST REGIME & THE ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CHRISTAINS IN SYRIA: ARMED OPPOSITION GROUPS & THE FATE OF THE SYRIAN CHRISTIAN MINORITY -- DISINFORMATION REGARDING THE SYRIAN ARMED OPPOSITION & ITS TREATMENT OF SYRIAN CHRISTIANS -- THE ISLAMISTS' STANDARD TREATMENT OF CHRISTIANS -- WHY THE CLAIMS OF STRAIGHTFORWARD ETHNIC CLEANSING BY ISLAMIST MILITANTS DO NOT ADD UP -- ISLAMIST CONQUEST OF TERRITORY & THE DEMAND FOR THE PAYMENT OF JIZYA BY NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES RESIDING IN THE TERRITORY

RUTHLESS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE DECADE-LONG HONEYMOON BETWEEN THE TURKISH & SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIMES RAPIDLY COMING TO AN END -- SYRIA SINKING DEEPER & DEEPER IN THE THOES OF CIVIL WAR -- TURKEY'S AKP GOVERNMENT COLD-SHOULDERING THE BAATHIST REGIME IN SYRIA & OPENLY SIDING WITH THE REBELS -- REASONS FOR TURKEY'S SHIFT IN FOREIGN POLICY VIS-A-VIS SYRIA -- TURKEY & ITS NEO-OTTOMAN ASPIRATIONS -- SYRIA, TURKEY, & THE KURDS -- TURKEY, IRAN, & THE WEST

THE SYRIAN UPRISING & PROSPECTS FOR GENUINE REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA:  SYRIAN PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD STRUGGLING TO CONTEND WITH A MASSIVE POPULAR UPRISING -- THE SYRIAN MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD POISED TO DOMINATE WHATEVER COALITION OF FORCES MANAGES TO OVERTHROW THE BAATHIST REGIME -- THE LIKELY OUTCOME:  A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY PROTECTING BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & LIBERTIES, OR AN ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP CONDUCTING A REIN OF TERROR?

WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD NOT SUPPORT THE "OPPOSITION" TO THE ASSAD REGIME IN SYRIA:  WHY THE OVERTHROW OF ASSAD WOULD NOT BE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST -- ASSAD'S "OPPOSITION" AS PART OF THE WORDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- THE FATE OF SYRIA'S CHRISTIAN MINORITY, SHOULD THE ISLAMISTS SEIZE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY -- THE SORRY PERFORMANCE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HANDLING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

TRIPOLI:  IS THE NORTHERN LEBANESE CITY A BASE FOR ISLAMISTS?  DOES THE CITY POSE A DIRECT THREAT TO SYRIAN SECURITY?  TRIPOLI'S HOPELESSLY FRAGMENTED & PRIMARILY NON-COMBATIVE SALAFI MOVEMENT -- THE CITY'S PROLONGED POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION & ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION -- TRIPOLI'S TRANSITION FROM TOLERATION OF RELIGIOUS & CULTURAL DIVERSITY TO ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & MARIONITE MILITARIZATION -- THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR & ITS AFTERMATH -- SUBSEQUENT CONFLICT -- THE CURRENT POLITICAL & ECONOMIC CONDITION OF TRIPOLI -- WHAT IS REQUIRED TO DECONSTRUCT THE PHENOMENON OF TRIPOLI'S ISLAMIC RADICALISM?

THE 2008 U.S. DISTRICT COURT CIVIL JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FOR ITS COMPLICITY IN ACTS OF JIHADIST TERRORISM AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS:  A $413 MILLION CIVIL JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA FOR ITS PROVISION OF SUPPORT & MATERIAL AID TO THE KILLERS OF TWO AMERICAN CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ -- THE COURT'S RULING IN GATES VERSUS SYRIA (2008):  SYRIA "SUPPORTED, PROTECTED, HARBORED, & SUBSIDIZED" THE IRAQ-BASED TERRORIST GROUP HEADED BY ABU MUS'AB AL-ZARQAWI, THUS BEING CULPABLE FOR THE BEHEADING OF TWO U.S. CONTRACTORS BY THIS GROUP -- SYRIA'S APPEAL IN THE CASE STILL PENDING -- WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT LOSES THE CASE ON APPEAL?

THE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES THE REVOLT IN SYRIA OFFERS THE WEST -- WHAT THE WESTERN STATES MUST DO:   QUICKLY & ROBUSTLY SEIZE THE MOMENT TO DISPATCH BASHAR AL-ASSAD & HIS ACCOMPLICES -- THE MANY BENEFITS THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN THE ASSAD REGIME REACHES ITS APPOINTED DUSTBIN OF HISTORY -- FOREIGN & GEOPOLITICAL BENEFITS --DOMESTIC & HUMANITARIAN BENEFITS -- ONE POTENTIAL DANGER OF REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA -- SUNNIS VERSUS ALAWIS -- HOW WESTERN POLICY CAN MAKE A DECISIVE DIFFERENCE

LEBANON & THE POWER STRUGGLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  LEBANON'S STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY -- SYRIAN INTERVENTION INTO LEBANESE POLITICS -- SYRIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM & RETURN TO LEBANON -- THE IMPACT ON LEBANON OF THE ASCENDANCY OF IRAN & ITS ARAB PROXIES -- LEBANON'S CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION, DOMESTICALLY & INTERNATIONALLY -- THE ROLE OF SAUDI ARABIA IN UNDERMINING THE STRUGGLE FOR LEBANESE SOVEREIGNTY & RETURNING LEBANON TO THE ERA OF SYRIAN DOMINATION

SYRIA AS A LONG-STANDING STATE SPONSOR OF ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE ROLE OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IN ASSISTING & FACILITATING ISLAMIST TERRORIST ACTIVITY & THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- SOPHISTICATED NETWORKS ESTABLISHED BY TERRORISTS & INSURGENTS TO FACILITATE THE MOVEMENT OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD TO & THROUGH SYRIA, & INTO IRAQ -- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR SYRIA & IRAQ -- BENEFITS TO SYRIA -- NEGATIVES FOR SYRIA -- AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ & THE ZARQAWI NRTWORK -- BENEFITS TO AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ -- SHUTING DOWN THE NETWORKS & STARVING THE INSURGENCY OF ITS SUPPLY OF MATERIEL, FUNDS, & MANPOWER

HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME HANDLES DISSENT:  SUPPRESSION OF POLITICAL DISSENT IN SYRIA -- ABSENCE OF FREE EXPRESSION & OTHER CIVIL LIBERTIES GUARANTEES IN SYRIA

SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS

ISRAELI-SYRIAN RELATIONS:  SYRIAN THREATS & ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION -- THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE ATTACK ON SYRIA'S SUSPECTED NUCLEAR FACILITY -- HOW THIS AIR STRIKE CALLED BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S BLUFF & REVEALED HIS REGIME'S STRATEGIC WEAKNESS -- WHAT BASHAR'S COVERT FLIRTATION WITH NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY SUGGESTS -- THE CONTINUING NEGATIVE DYNAMIC BETWEEN SYRIA & ISRAEL -- ACCUMULATING TENSION, MILITARY PREPARATIONS, & FORECASTS OF WAR

THE CONFLICT IN LEBANON:  IRAN, SYRIA, & HEZBOLLAH VERSUS THE WEST -- LEBANON AS A KEY BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN THE WEST AS A WHOLE & THE FORCES THAT SEEK TO DRAG THE MIDDLE EAST DOWN INTO FANATICISM, TYRANNY, & BARBARISM -- LEBANON AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ANTI-WESTERN STRATEGY OF IRAN & ITS ALLIES, SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IRANIAN POLITICS THAT IS BEING PLAYED OUT IN LEBANON & GAZA -- IRAN'S PLAN TO CO-OPT ARAB NATIONALISM, HAVE AN ACTIVE WAR WITH ISRAEL, BE VICTORIOUS IN THAT WAR, & SEIZE LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIM WORLD FROM THE SUNNIS & ARABS

SYRIA, THE U.S.A., & THE MIDDLE EAST:  BASHAR AL-ASSAD, THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, & SYRIA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS -- THE MESSAGE THAT AL-ASSAD IS SENDING TO U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & HIS ADMINISTRATION:  SYRIA IS NOT PREPARED TO ENTER INTO AN AXIS WITH THE U.S.A. & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT INSIST THAT SYRIA DO SO. IN EXCHANGE FOR FRIENDLY DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYRIA & THE U.S.A., THE LATTER MUST ABANDON IRAQ, LEAVE LEBANON OPEN TO SYRIAN DOMINATION, & AGREE TO THE RETURN OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS TO SYRIA. IN SHORT, THE U.S.A. MUST CAPITULATE TO SYRIAN DEMANDS & LEAVE ISRAEL & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST AT THE MERCY OF TYRANNICAL REGIMES & ISLAMIST TERRORISTS

SYRIA'S AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIME & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  SYRIA'S DENIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS TO POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & REGIME CRITICS -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S WEAK REACTION TO THE ARREST & IMPRISONMENT OF SYRIAN PRO-REFORM POLITICAL ACTIVIST KAMAL AL-LABWANI -- FAILURE OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSLATE ITS DISPLEASURE INTO POLICY -- U.S. ACTION IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL & FREE MARKET REFORMS & BASIC GUARANTEES OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN SYRIA SPEAKS MUCH SOFTER THAN THE RHETORIC OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE

THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH'S TRANSITION FROM THE ROLE OF SUBSERVIENT JUNIOR PARTNER IN ITS AXIS WITH SYRIA TO THE ROLE OF DOMINANT PARTNER -- THE CONSEQUENT WEAKENING OF SYRIA'S ROLE IN LEBANON -- HEZBOLLAH'S ABANDONMENT OF COOPERATION WITH THE EXISTING LEBANESE GOVERNMENT, STAKING OUT A MORE MAXIMALIST POSITION TO DOMINATE LEBANON & TRANSFORM ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER INTO AN IRANIAN-STYLE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST STATE -- THE STRENGTHENING ROLE OF IRAN IN LEBANON, WHERE IRANIAN AGENTS, IN LEAGUE WITH HEZBOLLAH, HAVE CONSOLIDATED A STATE WITHIN A STATE -- THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S ADOPTION OF SYRIA'S FORMER DOMINANT ROLE IN LEBANON

ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON, SYRIA, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE SECOND LEBANON WAR AS A FALTERING, INDECISIVE WAR RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC FOLLIES & OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCES -- THE ISRAELI POLITICAL & MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S LACK OF A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT VICTORY OVER HEZBOLLAH ENTAILED -- HOW ISRAEL SQUANDERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE REGIONAL SCORES & MAINTAIN UNQUESTIONED ISRAELI DETERRENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRENGTHS & ADVANTAGES UPON WHICH ISRAEL CAN BUILD & PREPARE TO ATTAIN A CLEAR & DECISIVE VICTORY IN THE NEXT ROUND WITH HEZBOLLAH & THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME

THE MIDDLE EAST:  ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE -- THE ORIGIN OF MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL TRADITIONS & STRUCTURES -- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT & MODERN GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AUTHORITARIAN RULE OF CENTRALIZED STATE GOVERNMENT & THE COUNTERVAILING POWER OF LOCAL ENTITIES -- THE CONTEMPORARY BATTLE BETWEEN EXCLUSIONARY & CONSENSUAL GOVERNING SYSTEMS

AMERICAN POLITICS, FOREIGN POLICY, & FREELANCE DIPLOMACY:  U.S. POLITICIANS ENDANGERING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY BY BLIND & INEPT ENGAGEMENT WITH AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LEGITIMIZING TYRANNICAL DICTATORS & STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM -- UNPRINCIPLED & IRRESPONSIBLE POLITICIANS USE THEIR SEATS IN THE U.S. SENATE TO UNDERMINE AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOR THE SAKE OF GAINING PUBLICITY & FURTHERING THEIR DOMESTIC POLITICAL AMBITIONS

SYRIA:  MIDDLE EASTERN TROUBLEMAKER & ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- WHY THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD CONTINUES TO DEFY THE U.S.A. -- THE PROBLEMS THAT THE SYRIAN REGIME & ITS STRATEGY ARE CREATING FOR AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY & HOW THE BUSH PRESIDENCY SHOULD CALL BASHAR'S BLUFF -- THE PROPER ROLE OF U.S, MILITARY ACTION

LEBANON, ISRAEL, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST -- THE ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST REGIME IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, THROUGH COVERT COUNTERTERRORIST POLITICAL ACTION AS WELL AS OVERT MILITARY ACTION, TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT & TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEIR DEADLY ENEMIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE LONG & TROUBLED HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & THE IDEA OF DISPATCHING AN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO THE REGION -- THE IMPORTANT LESSON THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL LEARNED, AS REGARDS TRUSTING INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS -- THE SAME LESSON THAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW -- THE FOLLY OF RELYING ON INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS TO END A WAR IN PROGRESS

THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN ENDURING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  IS THERE A ROLE FOR DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS?  TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF SUCH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AS HEZBOLLAH & HAMAS & SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR STATE SPONSORS MUST PRECEDE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO ARRANGE A MIDDLE EAST PEACE

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

THE CURRENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBYA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  HAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESS IN RESOLVING ITS MOST VITAL DIFFERENCES WITH THE MU'AMMAR QADHAFI POLITICAL REGIME IN LIBYA BEEN THE RESULT OF A ROBUST U.S. POLICY OF FORCE PROJECTION IN IRAQ?  WOULD SIMILAR FORCE PROJECTION BY THE U.S.A. CREATE COMPARABLE COMPLIANCE FROM OTHER HOSTILE REGIMES, SUCH AS THOSE IN SYRIA, IRAN, & NORTH KOREA?

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIETIES, THEIR POLITICAL HISTORY, THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS, & THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL ASIA & IN NORTH AFRICA -- IRAQ, IRAN, KURDISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, & SOUTH YEMEN

THE CURRENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYRIA & LEBANON:  SYRIA'S UNDERGROUND INTELLIGENCE APPARATUS IN LEBANON AS THE BASIS OF SYRIAN CONTROL OF LEBANON -- SYRIA'S EXPLOITATION OF & FINANCIAL DEPENDENCE ON THE LEBANESE ECONOMY -- THE PROBLEM THAT THE SITUATION POSES FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

SYRIA AS A CONTINUING PROBLEM FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME STILL IN THE CROSS HAIRS OF U.S. DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE CONCERN -- SYRIAN ATTEMPTS TO ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, PARTICULARLY SOPHISTICATED SURFACE-TO-SURFACE BALLISTIC MISSILES -- HIGH PROBABILITY THAT SYRIA NOW POSSESSES BIOLOGICAL & CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AS WELL AS NUCLEAR SECRETS -- THE SYRIAN REGIME'S DEMONSTRATED WILLINGNESS TO USE TERRORISM TO ADVANCE ITS GEOPOLITICAL GOALS

WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO LEBANON'S BECOMING A REAL NATION AGAIN & OPERATING A STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM: &THE LEBANESE MUSLIMS' DEMONSTRATING TOLERANCE FOR LEBANON'S CHRISTIAN MINORITY, ESTABLISHING THE RULE OF SECULAR LAW & MAKING PEACE WITH ISRAEL, AS WELL AS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT'S ACHIEVING ITS GOAL OF TRANSFORMING THE MIDDLE EAST, A GOAL WHICH WILL BE ACHIEVED ONLY WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IS IMPOSED & PROTECTED BY THE ARMED MIGHT OF THE U.S.A.

SYRIA'S LOSS OF COMMAND & CONTROL OF LEBANON -- THE LIKELY CONSEQUENCES OF SYRIAN MILITARY WITHDRAWAL FROM LEBANON, AFTER INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE FOR SYRIAN WITHDRAWAL RESULTED FROM A CASCADING SERIES OF SYRIAN MISCALCULATIONS: SYRIA'S LOSS OF REGIONAL PRESTIGE IN THE LEVANT & THE MIDDLE EAST, SUBSTANTIAL WEAKENING OF THE SYRIAN BAATHIST REGIME'S STAYING POWER INSIDE SYRIA ITSELF, & THE EVENTUAL DOWNFALL OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD & HIS DICTATORSHIP

THE CEDAR REVOLUTION:  THE MOVEMENT TO BRING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY TO LEBANON -- WHAT IS NECESSARY FOR THE CEDAR REVOLUTION TO SUCCEED?  LEBANESE POLITICIANS' TAKING STEPS TO DISARM HEZBOLLAH & THEIR CUTTING TIES WITH ELEMENTS OF THE FORMER SYRIAN OCCUPATION REGIME

SYRIA & ITS DESPOTIC POLITICAL SYSTEM:  DICTATORSHIP & THE SUPPRESSION OF MOVEMENTS ADVOCATING DEMOCRACY & PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- AKTHAM NAISSE:  ONE DISSIDENT'S STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY & HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA

SYRIA, LEBANON, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, ITS MILITARY OCCUPATION & SUBJUGATION OF LEBANON, & HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME HAS TURNED LEBANON INTO A MAJOR CENTER FOR TRAINING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS & FOR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF THE WAR WHICH THE ISLAMISTS & BAATHISTS ARE WAGING TO INSURE THAT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST REMAINS THE SAME SORRY PLACE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR & THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

THE ARABS' BLEAK FUTURE -- THE DECADENCE & DECLINE OF THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST:  FOCUS ON THE COMPENSATIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD WILL DO NOTHING TO ALTER THE ARABS' PREDICAMENT IN THIS WORLD

SYRIA & THE U.S.A.--WHAT IS NEEDED IN U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY TO INDUCE SYRIA TO DISCONTINUE AIDING & SHELTERING TERRORISTS, SMUGGLING OIL & GUNS TO & FOR FORCES HOSTILE TO THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, DEVELOPING & USING WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, & KEEPING SYRIAN TROOPS IN LEBANON:  FIRMNESS & RESOLVE, CLEAR & UNAMBIGUOUS MESSAGES AS TO WHAT THE U.S.A. WILL NOT TOLERATE, IMPOSITION OF ECONOMIC & OTHER SANCTIONS, & THE WILL AS WELL AS THE ABILITY TO EMPLOY EFFECTIVE & DECISIVE MILI- TARY FORCE, IF NECESSARY

SYRIA -- ROGUE STATE, ENEMY OF THE U.S.A., SPONSOR OF TERRORISM, MAJOR MISCHIEF MAKER IN THE FESTERING MIDDLE EAST, & DEVELOPER/ACQUIRER OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & BALLISTIC MISSILE DELIVERY SYSTEMS:  WHY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED ABOUT SYRIA'S WMD & MISSILE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS

SYRIA'S OCCUPATION OF LEBANON, INTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE CONTINUING THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM AIDED & ABETTED BY THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME

THE DESPOTIC & TROUBLE-MAKING REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD & THE OLD GUARD IN SYRIA -- WILL THE SYRIAN DESPOTISM BE THE NEXT MIDDLE EASTERN CESSPOOL OF TYRANNY, CORRUPTION, & INTERNATIONAL MISCHIEF-MAKING TAKEN OUT MILITARILY BY THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION PARTNERS?