EU Should Say No to Syria

I. Ros-Lehtinen, Foreign Affairs Committee | Septemer 22, 2008

The EU's plan to reward Syria with an "Association Agreement" is worrisome for several reasons. ++ Damascus not only sponsors Hezbollah and Hamas, it also follows Iran's approach to nuclear weapons in spite of its commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. ++ "European leaders should cease all further action toward an Association Agreement." ++ If the EU ignores the lesson of inaction, as it has in the case of the Caucasus conflict, Syria might one day deliver nuclear and chemical weapons to Islamist terrorist organizations.