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Rolo, we have been having bases in the middle east forever.
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Huh? Where are these bases we done been having? Do you really think that anything before Gulf War I can be defined as "forever"?
I want to see how the U.S. manages to both establish a "democratic" government in Iraq
and obtains permission to keep bases there. It will be an interesting trick, because it will be a government under siege from most of its own population from day 1, and is guarateed to generate a lot of "these people" (a statement which really needs no comment at all).
Everybody keeps talking about the images from Iran reminding them of the fall of Communism. Me ... well, it reminds me more of 1979. It may have been "forever" ago, but IMHO it's one hell of a lot more relevant - and a lot closer to the east than the former Iron Curtain was to the North.