Letters to the Editor
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Exactly, the running gun battles in Beruit are what they all fear showing up in their capital ...
When WE took out Saddam we disrupted the status quo and made Iran much more powerful regionally (Saddam's death payments to Palestnian sucide bombers were a pittance compared to Iran's support of Hizbollah in Lebanon .... And Hibollah by some accounts is now playing Hama's old role played against the palestinian authority -- true vanguard)
I think -- with the usual paradoxical nature of our bullying -- we are forcing Iran into the same noncooperative stance we force Hussein into ... by some measures we've made it IMPOSSIBLE for them to cooperate with us without losing face ..
If the Saudis don't have nuclear warheads, I'd be very surprised ... surely Pakistan or by proxy North Korea could have taken care of the "need" a decade or more ago, quietly on the QT and very hush-hush ...
It's a pandora's box, a nest of vipers ... and of course, we have our oil addiction to consider ...