Good Cop Bad Cop
So I’m not the only one to notice how the US/UK are performing the good cop/bad cop routine on Syria.
The wrangling over Iraq’s neighbor Syria is starting to look like an international version of “good cop/bad cop”.
Although there are some reports from “sources” that Bush has ruled out a war against Syria – possibly because the his good family friends the Sauds were so dead set against it.
The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon, the Guardian learned yesterday.
In the past few weeks, the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, ordered contingency plans for a war on Syria to be reviewed following the fall of Baghdad … “It’s a bit of a good cop, bad cop routine,” one Whitehall official said of the tougher line coming from the US.
Earlier here.