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The Middle East
Sitting on a powder keg, with the American occupation of Iraq helping light the fuse...
- Shia Backlash Wrecks US Strategy - The Scotsman's Tim Ripley points out that each time the United States attacks Najaf and other Shiite areas, it loses more and more of Shia support. August 2004
- Between Iraq and a Hard Place: Steven A Cook, Slate, June 2004 - This sentence says it all: "The Bush administration's strategy in the Middle East has led the United States into a hornet's nest of competing interests and claims and has compromised U.S. credibility in the region."
- Fallujah: The 'Liberated' City - While President Bush campaigns on having liberated Iraq, this city of half a million has been 'liberated' from foreign occupation, become a secure haven for the Iraqi resistance, where every foreigner is persona non grata, and enforcement of the Sharia includes veils and no makeup for women. Unfortunately, this city has the potential to become the rallying point for anti-western jehadis that believe the American military machine can be defeated.
- Saudi Arabia: The Domino Theory in Reverse; Zakaria, Newsweek, June 2004
- Iran Captures British Naval Craft - Iran lashes out in response to encirclement by US and British-led European pressure on nuclear weapons program.
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