Word: lebanons
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...good reason to stick around either. Journalists on the trip dubbed Baker the "Secretary of Stealth" for refusing to outline his overall strategy. But his broad goals are clear. He is trying to convene a conference under whose umbrella Israel would talk directly to Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon. Also present would be Palestinian representatives, seeking to enhance their political power in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. If the Palestinians could be satisfied, Baker believes, Syria and Jordan could bury their differences with Israel. So could other Arab states like Saudi Arabia, now slated to attend...
Alternatively, Iraq might sink into a long-running, multisided civil war, like Lebanon -- and "Lebanon" now rivals "Vietnam" as a one-word summation of the Administration's worst nightmares. The Kurds and Shi'ites, says a Bush adviser, were "fighting the Sunnis for years before we got there, and they'll continue killing each other long after we've gone." U.S. forces, moreover, might not be able to stay out of such a bloody quagmire. Having helped depose Saddam, Washington might be obliged to get involved in selecting and propping up a successor government. But the U.S., observes an Administration...
...view is a long way from prevailing in Jerusalem -- let alone Damascus, which in any talks is likely to insist on recognition of its effectual control of Lebanon as well as return of the Golan Heights. But the voices of Olmert and like-minded thinkers are unlikely to be drowned out, because they have logic on their side...
Some Saudis think King Hussein is on the way out anyway. If he is toppled by a coup, they fear, Jordan might be torn by a Lebanon-style civil war, or ruled by radical Palestinians or Islamic fundamentalists...
...Saigon, still more fiascoes fairly shouted of Pentagon ineptitude. An attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran broke down in the desert in 1980. In 1983 a terrorist's truck bomb killed 241 American servicemen, forcing the U.S. to beat an embarrassing retreat from its peacekeeping role in Lebanon...