Tackling Syria - no comments

From Oliver Kamm:

Tony Blair has declined to rule out sanctions against Syria, but they would be a minimal step. Against Baathist Iraq, sanctions were porous, ineffectual, corruptly administered and a public relations disaster. Against Syria, they need to be more than symbols of disapproval. Political, diplomatic and economic pressure should be exerted with the declared aim of regime change. Forcing that outcome now is right and timely, and may obviate the need to pursue it militarily later.

There can't be many people out there for whom the very word Syria has not become synonymous with "sponsor of terrorism" (even the Beeb will tell you that). Read the full article for points that should dispel most doubts. Doesn't this make a pretty good case for regime change? Who, but terrorists, could possibly lose? Well there's optimism for you.

Funnily enough, there is a sense in which I am in the pay of Big Oil, albeit a few rungs below a level at which I might stand to profit personally from regime change in the Middle East.