The Prosecution Rests

Syria tells the world that it will no longer be cooperating with the US on security matters, and incidentally refers people to news that 1,200 terrorists were caught at the border trying to cross into Iraq in recent weeks. What does that mean? Well, simply put, Syria has had the ability to stop terrorists from crossing in to Iraq but chose not to.

Well, if that doesn't beat all. As Tigerhawk states:

The Associated Press, it seems, has written this story upside down. If Syria has, in fact, been able to arrest more than a thousand insurgents in just the last few weeks, why hasn't it been doing that for the last two years? Syria, in its braggodocio, has implicitly confessed that it has been able to stop insurgents from crossing the border all along, and effectively admitted the charges against it.

I'd go one point further. It was not in their interest to stop those insurgents from crossing into Iraq because the instability in Iraq enhanced Syria's position vis-a-vis the US and even within Syria's own fractured government.