"In a few years' time, they'll have it down pat ¡X just like they have
with Eastern Europe. Oh, the Soviet bloc [the Middle East thugocracies]
was bound to collapse anyway. Nothing to do with that simpleton Ronnie
Raygun [Chimpy Bushitler]. In fact, all Raygun [Chimpy] did was delay
the inevitable with his ridiculous arms build-up [illegal unprovoked
Halliburton oil-grab], as many of us argued at the time: see my 1984
column 'Yuri Andropov, The Young, Smart, Sexy New Face Of Soviet
Communism' [see the April 2004 Spectator column 'Things Were Better
Under Saddam: The coalition has destroyed Baathism, says Rod Liddle,
and with it all hopes of the emergence of secular democracy' ¡X and yes,
that really ran in these pages, on 17 April, not 1 April.]"
-- Mark Steyn
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