Bushites seek to divide Syria and Iran

Apparently, none of the Arab Nations that are predominantly Sunni are all that happy with any of the Shite states; that is a majority shia state.

Nevertheless, that is the governments we are talking about. Their people seem to feel differently. To them, Muslims are Muslims, and Bush is Bush, the latter being evil, to them.

We, at the Lantern, can understand that!

Easy bourse - NEWS:

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Bush administration officials are searching for ways to peel the Syrian government away from its alliance with Iran, as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads to Israel on Sunday to initiate a diplomatic push nearly two weeks after the crisis in Lebanon broke out, the New York Times reported Saturday on its Web site.

Senior administration officials interviewed by the newspaper said they had no plans right now to resume direct talks with the Syrian government, but officials said they were at the early stages of a plan to encourage Saudi Arabia and Egypt to make the case to the Syrians that they must turn against the Hezbollah, the militant group in Lebanon branded as a terrorist group by the U.S., the New York Times reported.

President George W. Bush recalled the U.S. ambassador to Syria, Margaret Scobey, after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, a former Lebanese prime minister, in February 2005. Since then, the U.S.'s contacts with Damascus have been few, and the administration has imposed an array of sanctions on Syria's government and banks, and frozen the assets of Syrian officials implicated in Hariri's killing.

'We think that the Syrians will listen to their Arab neighbors on this rather than us,' said one senior U.S. official, according to the Times. 'So it's all a question of how well that can be orchestrated.'