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IMAGINE this scenario for a moment. The Soviet Union never died, the Cold War never ended. The Russians invaded and occupied both Canada and Mexico, then in both countries installed "puppet" governments of their own.

As Americans, wouldn't we feel that it was within our rights to harass and undermine these hostile new regimes?

That, more or less, is where Iran finds itself today. The United States is Iran's sworn enemy. And yet American forces overthrew the governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran's eastern and western neighbors, and then installed new regimes.

“I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against the Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq. And to me, that would include a strike over the border into Iran…”

-Senator Joseph Lieberman, interviewed on CBS News Face the Nation, June 10

 


IF ARAFAT were alive…" one hears this phrase increasingly often in conversations
with Palestinians, and also with Israelis and foreigners.


"If Arafat were alive, what's happening now in Gaza wouldn't be
happening…" - "If Arafat were alive, we would have somebody to talk
with…" - "If Arafat were alive, Islamic fundamentalism would not have
won among the Palestinians and would have lost some force in the neighboring
countries!"

In the meantime, the unanswered questions come up again: How did Yasser Arafat
die? Was he murdered? If so, who murdered him?