A year ago, both Iran and Syria faced the serious threat of "regime change" and preemptive attack by a determined, victorious George Bush. Now Syria ignores UN Resolution 1559 to withdraw its troops from Lebanon and Iran threatens retaliation if Israel dares to take out its clandestine nuclear programme precisely because it knows that budget realities, if not the public zeitgeist in America, makes another imperial adventure in the Middle East impossible.
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soon getting out will be like getting out of Chinese finger cuffs.
The question goes whether A. This type of 'domino effeect' was simply unforseen by our "uppers", or B. There's some other motive that we would never imagine.
MWHAHAAHA
Edited, Thu Nov 4 21:54:58 2004 by Kelvyquayo