Future impact unclear. The latest rumor mill I've heard is that Syria wanted to reschedule the war that was supposed to happen this past summer (which was going to be some joint Hamas / Hezbollah / Syria / logistics by Iran effort, but got scotched because Hamas and Fatah decided to have a civil war instead) for mid-November, but that sort of specific rumor has to be taken with a nontrivial grain of salt. Nonetheless, the basic schedule seems likely; all four of those groups still really want a war right about now, and it's just a matter of when is convenient.
Impact on US domestic politics, when that happens, will be an interesting question as well.
September 6 2007, 20:56:01 UTC 8 years ago
Even more importantly, how are his diplomatic connections to Europe? (I have been inexcusably lax in keeping up on news from the region).
I find the N. Korea "abandonment" of its nuclear program somewhat alarming too. On the one hand, I wonder if the US will leverage more pressure on Iran now that N. Korea's temperature is dropping. I worry though if N. Korea's decision to abandon their nuclear program could be because they worked out a lucrative enough arms deal to no longer need to play the dangerous nuclear leveraging game with the US anymore.
But yeah, things feel like conflict. And RH and YK are just around the corner too...
September 6 2007, 21:46:25 UTC 8 years ago
With NK... damn, I have no idea what to make of anything that goes on there.