Talk:Syria–United States relations

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Untitled[edit]

I placed the POV tag when creating the article because it is pasted from a US government website. Because this comes from a US govt source it may not be neutral, but I don't have the expertise to judge. (Hopefully others that know more will simply remove the tag if they think the article looks okay.) Mangostar (talk) 05:18, 28 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

potential WSJ resource[edit]

U.S. Restricts U.A.E. Firm for Web Filter Sale to Syria by Paul Sonne and Steve Stecklow 16.December.2011, excerpt ...

The Department of Commerce is placing restrictions on a person and a company in the United Arab Emirates for supplying Syria with Internet-filtering devices made by California-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. On Thursday, Commerce said it put Waseem Jawad and the Ras Al Khaimah-based company Info Tech, also known as Infotec, on a list of people and institutions determined to "have engaged in activities contrary to U.S. national security and/or foreign policy interests."

Related video http://online.wsj.com/video/pressure-mounts-to-limit-surveillance-exports/00338717-B3CD-4C2D-8978-70DF2A34502B.html Pressure Mounts to Limit Surveillance Exports "Pressure mounted Thursday on U.S. and Western companies that sell censorship and surveillance technology to repressive regimes, with a congressman introducing a bill that would restrict such exports, Jennifer Valentino-DeVries reports Dec/9/2011 2:20:26 PM"

See Content-control software for example

99.19.45.160 (talk) 01:17, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Blue Coat Systems. 99.181.130.155 (talk) 05:57, 17 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1957 CIA Coup Attempt?[edit]

The claim isn't sourced properly and although I was able to find it on the website provided, it's not clear to me if there was such a coup attempt, or if the Syrians are simply making accusations. Also, the leader (Adib Shishakli) supposedly threatened in 1957 was overthrown and killed in 1954, according to his Wikipedia article. So I don't really know what the Syrian embassy is talking about.TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 22:15, 14 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Incomplete, out of date[edit]

The history from 2008 forward needs major work. I hope someone with appropriate expertise will improve it. Wcmead3 (talk) 00:22, 8 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox/flag/mission[edit]

I'm curious about this edit, with the edit summary "Please take this to talk page", by @TU-nor:. I don't see anything wrong or controversial about the material deleted. What's the problem? BobFromBrockley (talk) 08:35, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Bobfrombrockley: The stuff I removed had been added by a now blocked sock account without any edit summary or other explanation. This editor (with a lot of sock accounts) has a long record of unexplained additions to a huge number of articles, sometimes controversial, sometimes not. I have made an attempt to clean up some of their latest edits. I reverted this, since I see several things in their edits that could/should be discussed: 1) the use of "Syrian Arab Republic" instead of the WP:COMMONNAME "Syria" (using unnecessary longnames is one of the sockmaster's favourites), 2) the mention of diplomatic missions when they are suspended, 3) whether it is pertinent to have both the "Syria" infobox and the "Syrian opposition" infobox in the same article about diplomatic relations, 4) having two different flags with the same caption "Syria" linking to two different articles. If you think any of this is unproblematic, feel free to reinsert parts of the edits or the whole, but if you do, please give a thorough edit explanation. Regards! --T*U (talk) 10:27, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Hadn't realised this was a blocked sock. BobFromBrockley (talk) 15:46, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]