Meanwhile, on the Syria/Lebanon border...

[Deckard]

Originally Posted by dubman

obama camp could totally angle this one if they needed to

"a wartime situation and you want to let *another* republican try and handle it? do we just accumulate massive debt and ask for more? this is ridiculous."

That would be the way I'd hope they'd run with it. Obviously it depends on how it develops, particularly if the US somehow manages to get embroiled in it. If that happens, the Obama camp will have to struggle against the silencing cloak of national unity and patriotism and all that jazz.

Originally Posted by IsiliRunite

Afghanistan and Pakistan aren't considered part of the greater middle East, are they?

No idea. I guess they're part of the ideological Middle East if not the geographical.