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2011-09-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by ryuge 2011-09-15 06:30|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Yawn.

and that goes for the Arab spring too. The one thing I am concerned about is Turkey starting something with Israel.

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-15 09:21|| 2011-09-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 ...why? Think it'll take the travel agents too long to issue new 2012 cruise calendars updated with Constantinople from the previous name of Istanbul?

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-15 11:10|| 2011-09-15 11:10|| Front Page Top

#3 Proco, it's not Turkey vs. Israel in a vacuum that concerns me. It's the spill over to all the ME issues that might occur. Everything from a shut down of the oil flow, to an Egyptian + friends attack, Lebanon, the Black/Caspian sea / Caucasus issues that might be triggered.

You know, all those unknown unknowns.

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-15 11:17|| 2011-09-15 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of that's coming with the economic collapse. The Euros won't be sending checks to the Paleos et al. Neither will the Americans when its a choice between cutting grandma's SS check while paying ~~bribes~~ foreign aid to many of the miscreants. That'll cause more than a Tea Party reaction among the masses. It will be interesting times indeed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-15 12:12|| 2011-09-15 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 I seem to remember a saying from a song from my mis-spent youth:

"Strange days indeed, mama"

Posted by AlanC 2011-09-15 12:19|| 2011-09-15 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Seems an appropriate product for him.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-09-15 13:15|| 2011-09-15 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 "Ahmadinejad humiliated"

Isn't that kinda standard for him?

Posted by Barbara 2011-09-15 14:24|| 2011-09-15 14:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Ahmadinejad has long served as the much-needed anti-Israeli foil, the embodiment of a modern Iran, which is a strange mix of Islamic orthodoxy, post-revolutionary nationalism, and Third World Marxist-socialism....But his usefulness has come to an end. As he distracted the world with his rhetorical excesses, Iran moved ahead steadily with its nuclear program and extended its reach into Iraq and other countries in the region... The paradox of today's Iran is that it is the ruling elites who have rendered him politically irrelevant, not the protesters demonstrating in the squares of downtown Tehran. For many Iranians, this is a blessing and also a tragedy: while Ahmadinejad makes his exit, the regime is still alive and well.

Essentially sums it up. The clown may be leaving; the circus is still there.

Posted by Pappy 2011-09-15 14:49|| 2011-09-15 14:49|| Front Page Top

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