A Killing in Beirut and A Danger Point For The Iraqi PM — A Betrayal In The Middle East?
The assasination of Lebanese cabinet member Pierre Gemayel is the fifth killing in the last two years aimed at anti-Syrian officials in Lebanon, and in a way, it is the most conniving. Gemayel is a member of one of the most prominent Christian families in Lebanon. This has Hezbollah and Syria written all over it. The killng’s timing is amazing. It comes as leaders of the world are demanding a full scale investigation of the murder of a former Lebanese Prime Minister, a killing already linked to the highest levels of the Syrian goverment.
But there is another event that is even more frightening - the summit between Iran, Syria and Iraq that promises to undermine most of the American efforts, politically and otherwise.
What a betrayal from Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki. His agreement to meet with the Iranian terror gang is further proof that the harder we try, the worse it gets in Iraq. So, I ask these questions: What kind of deals will the ineffective leader of Iraq make with the Iranians? Will their talks include secret intelligence on American military plans in Iraq? And finally, does the Beirut killing signal to the world that Syria and Iran are only interested in brute force to settle their issues?
If Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian allies make an attempt to include the government of Iraq in a triple dose of terror, the United States should either exorcise the current Iraqi government, or pull our forces back to Kuwait where they can await the next challenges in the Middle East.
The fact is that the Iraqi PM is meeting with our enemies. That is simply not acceptable.
