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2006-01-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Steve 2006-01-17 12:27|| || Front Page|| [11 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1
Vote Quimby!

Posted by Master of Obvious 2006-01-17 13:45|| 2006-01-17 13:45|| Front Page Top

#2 question is, "then what happens?"

who grabs power? what do they do to get syrians to support them (hint: it involves Israel and the USA on the "hate" side, and Iran on the "love" side).

Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan 2006-01-17 13:46|| 2006-01-17 13:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmmm. I couldn't find any action on InTrade for this eventuality.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-01-17 13:57|| 2006-01-17 13:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Khaddam is hoping to be the leader of a grand Baathist-Sunni-MBrotherhood alliance.

Not likely.

Posted by mhw 2006-01-17 21:14|| 2006-01-17 21:14|| Front Page Top

#5 If Syria does go kaflooey, hopefully it will have a window of utter disorganization, but not violent chaos. Enough of a window for the hard-corps diplomats to mosey in and get the horse trading going on.

France, Iran and Russia will want them to continue to be a dictatorship, bless their rotten little hearts; but the US and Britain will connive to get them moving towards a greater plurality, hopefully ending in a democracy. Asking the UN in would help this a lot, at least reducing a lot of the hanky-panky; so they would be useful fools while we worked our works.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-01-17 21:46|| 2006-01-17 21:46|| Front Page Top

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