[Servant of the Nine]

I AM IMMENSELY FEARFUL of those who are now arguing that the Bush Administration should put as much effort and vigour into bringing peace between Israel and the Palestinians as it did in fighting Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

Iran is going to fall to internal revolution, just from the crossborder gossip from Afghanistan and Iraq. The new generation is fed up with the Mullahs.

Syria is going down because it's a Bathist regime and we can't hope to stabilize Iraq till the Bathists are through everywhere. Our forces will already be on the ground, next door, so it won't take any big political investment for "border incursions" to escalate into regime change.

With Iraq, Iran and Syria in friendly hands, we can impose a "Palestinian State" that is going to be very very different from anything Arafat would ever imagine.

Jordan and Lebanon will have to do as they are told.

On to North Korea.

So9

[Tomalak]

Interesting. Why exactly do you think the fall of these three governments will make a peaceful Palestinian State easier? The end to their bankrolling of terrorists and their moral support, or something else?

I also have to say I think regime change in Syria imposed by the US Army seems very unlikely.