The Syrians are arresting, torturing, and murdering Kurds. Even Amnesty International says so.
Sounds to me like Damascus is taking our measure. Maybe they figure we're overextended in Iraq as it is. Maybe they're counting on some antagonism among the Iraqi Kurds, adding to the potential for civil unrest in the nascent democracy next door. Either way, it's a problem for the President: he can't open up a new front without the anti-war mob blowing its stack, and he can't have Kurdish Iraq calling for Assad's head.
Syria's hiding Saddam's WMD. You know that's true. If GWB wins in November, we're going to be in Damascus within six months. And then all of the legalistic, proceduralistic multilateralists can choke on the news that we found the evil shit that everyone from Ritter to Blix to Kay said they believed existed and couldn't find.