About darn time!

The United States has recalled its ambassador to Syria amid rising tensions over the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri of Lebanon.

If Syria has been funneling terrorists into Iraq and harboring Saddam loyalists, and I believe they have, why did we have diplomatic relations with them to start with? We've had problems with Syria in Lebanon for at least 22 years. I can remember being off the coast of Beirut in 1983 and our ship firing 5" guns at Syrian tanks. Hizbullah (sponsored by Syria and Iran) chased the U.N. backed coalition out of Lebanon back then and they are active in the problems in Iraq today. As long as Syria is funding and supporting terrorist agencies like Hizbullah we should not have normalized relations with them.