DANIEL SCHORR: The United Nations Security Council is meeting tomorrow to consider a      chilling investigative report implicating high-ranking Syrian officials      in the assassination of Lebanon's popular former prime minister, Rafik      al-Hariri.</s>SIEGEL: NPR's senior news analyst Daniel Schorr.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has demanded action by the      international community to isolate Syria, but has not said what kind of      action.  One phrase notably absent from this discussion is `regime      change.' The rhetoric on Syria is different than Iraq, where President      Clinton's secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, first called for regime      change in a speech in Atlanta in December 1998, laying the groundwork for      violent change in the regime by the Bush administration.</s>DANIEL SCHORR: On Syria, there's been no hint of any use of force, even to support a      Syrian opposition.  Arguably, Syria has done more to destabilize the      region than Iraq did.  There have been clashes with American troops on      the Iraqi-Syrian border. The New York Times reports that President Bush      has not signed off on any specific strategy to contain Syria, and there      is no current plan to oust President Bashar Al-Assad.  Not even small,      clandestine operations by special operations units have been authorized.      A senior official was quoted by The Times:  "We've got our hands full in      the neighborhood."</s>DANIEL SCHORR: And so the Bush administration has become a late-blooming enthusiast for      collective action.  On NBC's "Meet the Press," Secretary Rice said that      the use of Syrian territory for transit of terrorists into Iraq is an      issue that will be addressed in multilateral fashion.  One price of the      war in Iraq may be that it's left the United States so weakened that it's      become difficult to contemplate another military operation.  This is      Daniel Schorr.
Senior news analyst Daniel Schorr compares and contrasts the Bush administration's policy on Syria and the current policy on neighboring Iraq.