The very fact that the Israeli Prime Minister...
Hamas had won the 2007 elections, she almost fell off of her treadmill. All she could say was "This is just wrong!"George Bush also failed in his plans to trigger a democratic domino effect in the region by toppling Saddam"s regime in Iraq.
The plan was impressive, however. There were widespread rumors that the Syrian regime was about to be toppled, and the former head of the CIA James Woolsey even threatened that Egypt would be the next in line for democratic promotion. When people who do not bother much to study facts from history and ethnology embark on a project to promote democracy in the third world, the results are always catastrophic.
This time around, the outcome proved to be the same. The disappearance of Iraq as a regional power strengthened Iran, and prompted Tehran to pursue even more actively the goal of obtaining a nuclear bomb as its best security guarantee. The war in Iraq mobilized the Islamic resistance throughout the world and simultaneously
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