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03-08-2003, 11:35 PM
<span style='font-family:verdana'><span style='color:0033CC' >The Domino Theory Works in Iraq
By Dick Morris
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 7, 2003
Remember the domino theory? First explained by President Eisenhower, it posited that if Vietnam fell, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore would be next. Then the Philippines and Indonesia. Soon we'd be fighting in San Francisco. It was wrong. Vietnam fell…and nothing happened.
But now a new version of the domino theory is back and it may well work. Bush is right that if Saddam falls in Iraq and 200,000 American troops occupy the country, the ripples will be felt throughout the Middle East.
In Iran, where the student strike of last year showed the strength of the opposition and the timidity of the clerical government in the face of determined democrats, the ayatollah's grip on power may be weakened. Until now, 70% of the Iranian population has contented itself with voting for the phony reform allowed by the clerics. The secular presidency in Teheran resembles nothing so much as a high school student government. Like the kids, Iranians elect their leaders but like the principal, the clerics still rule. Now there is a real chance to harness the forces of demographic change, a clear majority of the nation, and force an end to terrorist and repressive government.
I like Dick Morris when he makes sense http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/b.gif (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 532)</span></span>
By Dick Morris
FrontPageMagazine.co m | March 7, 2003
Remember the domino theory? First explained by President Eisenhower, it posited that if Vietnam fell, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia, and Singapore would be next. Then the Philippines and Indonesia. Soon we'd be fighting in San Francisco. It was wrong. Vietnam fell…and nothing happened.
But now a new version of the domino theory is back and it may well work. Bush is right that if Saddam falls in Iraq and 200,000 American troops occupy the country, the ripples will be felt throughout the Middle East.
In Iran, where the student strike of last year showed the strength of the opposition and the timidity of the clerical government in the face of determined democrats, the ayatollah's grip on power may be weakened. Until now, 70% of the Iranian population has contented itself with voting for the phony reform allowed by the clerics. The secular presidency in Teheran resembles nothing so much as a high school student government. Like the kids, Iranians elect their leaders but like the principal, the clerics still rule. Now there is a real chance to harness the forces of demographic change, a clear majority of the nation, and force an end to terrorist and repressive government.
I like Dick Morris when he makes sense http://gopusa.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/b.gif (http://www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=6 532)</span></span>