U.S. Licensing High-Tech Exports to Syria Under U.N. Development Program

U.S. Licensing High-Tech Exports to Syria Under U.N. Development Program

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After years of harsh talk and escalating rounds of sanctions against Syria for supporting terror and seeking weapons of mass destruction, the United States is quietly supporting a United Nations program to supply the Syrian regime with sophisticated surveillance equipment and computers to monitor its borders.

That surreptitious support emerged in the course of a FOX News investigation that began after a surprise Israeli air strike on September 6 destroyed a mysterious Syrian facility that many experts believe was a North Korean-style nuclear reactor.

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Supplying Syria with hi-technology? What's going on? The gov't isn't talking, but it appears that incentive diplomacy has been the real relationship with Syria, while the tough talk is just so much smoke.

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Maybe they want to sell them something, so in a few years they can turn around and say "They're dangerous, they have X"

Gotta love a good old fashioned double standard.

If I were Syria, I'd recall reports of US equipment being sold to Iraq that contained locater transponders and bugs that helped pinpoint and destroy key command and communications devices. I think I'd politely decline the offer.