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One small reason for optimism in the Middle East.

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|9.1.04 @ 8:08AM|

With Bush as the bad cop and Jimmy Carter as the good cop, is it any wonder Assad remains wacky?
I can't be optimistic.

|9.1.04 @ 9:05AM|

Is this really an international matter? -- perhaps so as it is a foreign occupation.

|9.1.04 @ 10:25AM|

Syrian interference in Lebanese internal affairs: bad .. American and French interference: good. Why?

|9.1.04 @ 11:19AM|

When French people get close to anything important, it like totaly fucks up everything to the maximum velocity.

|9.2.04 @ 4:55AM|

That Lahoud guy is truly the model of a modern major general (sorry...I just couldn't resist)...

|9.2.04 @ 9:33AM|

Tim Cavanaugh,

Though it may not be apparent to anti-Americans in France or the anti-French in the US, the US and France have been trying to mend this fence for about a year now. Bernier's recent speech to France's ambassadors, as well as Chirac's, is one more sign of this. IMHO, this is a very good thing.

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