NOYB wrote:

This mission took Armitage to Damascus with nine American demands.


DEBKA-Net-Weekly's Washington sources published those demands for the
first
time in its last week's issue: .


1. Start repealing Syria's 40-years old emergency laws.


2. Free all political prisoners from jail.


3. Abolish media censorship.


4. Initiate democratic reform.


5. Speed up economic development


6. Cut down relations with Iran.


7. Announce publicly that the disputed Shebaa Farms at the base of Mt.
Hermon are former Syrian territory. This would cut the ground from
under the
Lebanese terrorist Hizballah's claim that the land is Lebanese and must
be
"liberated" from Israeli "occupation."

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At least the next phase of the PNAC plan will be more honestly
conducted than was the first.

"We're here to tell you how to run your country, because we can, and we
hope to hell you refuse so we can turn you into another of our economic
and cultural colonies."

Notice that among those demands there is really nothing that could be
considered primarily a step to enhance the domestic security of the
United States or wipe out terrorists. We're admitting that much of our
motivation is to do the bidding of Israel in the region. That's good.
Honesty is better than selling us stories about yellow cake.