The American Thinker posted an article entitled, The Next Domino by Douglas Hanson. [h-t: Regime Change Iran.]

Y-A: They can learn a thing or two from the europeans on that score. But at least the trampling of a few would be for a reason other than alcohol + testosterone + pointless pride…and might actually lead to some long term good there.

“Chavez has gotten away with this outrage, and the message to the Venezuelans is clear. fire away. The Venezuelan press is already taking the ball and running with it. A cartoon far too vile to reprint, with even worse explicit sexual insults to the Secretary of State, was just published in the Venezuelan press. Venezuelan women and girls are now on notice that they, too, will be subjected to the worst kind of verbal assault (or worse) if they get out of line.”

The Spirit of Wahabbi, being excorcised from the Mideast and leaking into the admirable Oogo?

As far as predictions about Iran go I don’t have a clue. I was only wondering out loud if these kinds of things can be bet on. Does Vegas have a line? Lebanon and Syria in a month is more of a wish than something based on wisdom, but I don’t think it will be just Lebanon. I seriously doubt those dastardly neo-cons are thinking just “Lebanon.” Rather it is “Lebanon-Syria.” And now that Rove’s Al jazeera is putting the final part of the plan into effect……

I’m sure hoping for an event in Iran. If the people take to the streets and get a little momentum on their side….Soccer games are always a problem for the mullahs. Who knows what forty thousand fans will do after a game. A few qualifying matches for the world cup should be coming up soon.

Thanks for the link to the Dean piece. The most astounding sentence to me was:

“And every day that goes by is a day in which George Bush’s contempt for the international community, which I have denounced every day for two years, becomes more difficult to criticize.”

That’s got to be the largest step sideways I’ve seen in any game of ‘Simon Says’. Bush (and his Doctrine) are the new “Simon-in-chief for int’l Affairs”!

May W use that power carefully and with the same focus on the essential spirit: “Freedom brings peace; the age of the tyrant is over.”

As for your predictions: “… Syria goes down in a month… 15-1 the mullahs in Iran are…in Paris within six months”, I hope you are right but unless its all internally generated, I think you’ll need to add 3 to 6 months both to better establish the normalization of Iraq’s day-to-day security AND to maneover things through the UN once again (but with much more success this time around).

I don’t discount the real possibility of a U.S. (with undisclosed/cleanly deniable Israeli assist) pinpoint bombing of several Iranian nuclear sites between now and then, if the intel so reveals the necessity and/or if the U.S. wants to give an extremely audible hint to its opposition that we’ve got their backs. I’d prefer the “and” scenario to the “or” for so aggressive a statement. But I wouldn’t think anything more than 50-60% accuracy on the nukes info should be needed…There is simply too much to lose by not acting.)

How can you possibly say that, David. Are you forgeting that John Kerry had a secret plan that was much better than George Bush’s? No really, he did. If he’d been elected all our problems would be over now. There’s no way he would have lied to us about something like that. Oh what might have been…

“Alors. je me pense…petty dictator surrounded by countries who hate him, with no foreign exchange to speak of, no liquid currency to buy our obsolete weapons…

Mais non! Vive le Lebanon democratique!”

I heard this some time ago. I honestly can not remember where.

That is the problem with being a news junkie, so much stuff goes by that you can’t remember where it came from.