A Blow for Syria

This whole thing is very troubling:

The Syrian government ordered an American school and a U.S. cultural center in Damascus closed on Tuesday in response to a deadly U.S. attack on a village near the Iraq border, the state-run news agency said.

U.S. officials said the raid killed a top operative of al-Qaida in Iraq who intelligence suggested was about to conduct an attack in Iraq, but Syria and the Iraqi government criticized the raid.

That "criticism," of course, is based on the fact that U.S. troops in four helicopters attacked a building near the Iraq border and killed eight people. It has been described, rightfully, as a "barbaric" act, and as an extreme violation of international law. All for the purpose of taking out a group allegedly planning an attack in Iraq.

How long will we continue doing dirty work for Iraq and the thugs who run their country?