[sandlady]

From the article:

The latent message in the rapprochement is that the Arabs, including the immediate region around Iraq, do not feel any threat from Iraq. It also has an unasked question - why the United States insists on seeing such a threat when the potential targets of that "threat" fail to see it.

[Paradox]

The latent message in the rapprochement is that the Arabs, including the immediate region around Iraq, do not feel any threat from Iraq. It also has an unasked question - why the United States insists on seeing such a threat when the potential targets of that "threat" fail to see it.

Maybe the European history with Nazi Germany could shed a bit of light here. All those countries tried to play "nice" with Hitler. They even signed treaties with they guy... If not for the considerable 'nads of the Brits, and the help of the Americans, they would all be sprechen deutch.

[william clark]

This also makes the false presumption that only nations immediately adjacent to a terrorist state have a right to feel threatened.

[IncPen]

Clearly the Middle East News Has to pander to their subscribers, too...

[JEC]

Neville Chamberlin had a signed piece of paper too.

[weikel]

Is foolish to strike Iraq when enemy #1 Saudi Arabia and enemy #2 Iran have not yet been struck.

[TheDon]

Can you say, "Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic?"

[RichInOC]

Iraq scoring series of diplomatic coups

OK, I'll bite...what other embassies did they take over?