It is odd to me that Obama and Hillary have sent their advisors to meet with the Syrian terror masters. Zbig Brzezinski is Obama's foreign policy advisor and Hassan Nemazee is Hillary Clinton's advisor. Brzezinsli was a failure while serving the Carter Administration and hates Israel. Some cynics think the message given Assad was to hold off on terror attacks against the US because such an attack would help Republicans in the November elections.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/is_an_october_surrender_in_the.html