A change in US Mideast policy?

  To be able to say that there is a shift in US policy regarding Syria, one has first to assume that there was indeed a coherent policy on how to deal with Damascus in the first place. Yet for the most part Washington’s policy regarding regimes that the Bush administration disagreed with has been to: A) refuse to talk to them, and B) to berate them at every chance. Washington’s stance regarding Damascus was a typical example of such policy. Could that policy be changing so late in the game? Possibly. But then again, more likely not. In his final State of the Union address President George W. Bush was quite forthright in his accusations aimed at Iran and its leaders. Bush issued a stern warning to the leadership in Tehran, warning them that the United States would not stand idly by, in view of what he deemed was,