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...irony is that Moscow is trying to build alliances to oppose the U.S., but they're not learning the lessons from Yugoslavia. There they tried to support Milosevic even though the Serb people were not keen to support him. Now that the Serbs have overthrown Milosevic, they'll probably turn to the West, which has a lot more to offer than Russia does. So there's a danger in Putin's strategy that when all of these countries open up and overthrow their dictators, they're all going to turn back to the West. What will Putin do then...
...Cold War, of course, is long over, and the U.S. is quite happy to have the very same Socialist party overthrown by Pinochet governing Chile today, all the more so because it has adopted the "Third Way" ideology, which prioritizes economic principles cherished in Washington. But if Chile's generals are once again getting restive, this time because a court wants their erstwhile commander to answer charges that by any standard democratic standard of behavior are extremely serious, then it may behoove Washington - preferably with the endorsement of whichever transition team makes it to the White House - to actively warn...
...zones they have declared in northern and southern Iraq. Although these zones aren't recognized by the United Nations, allied planes bomb Iraqi air defenses at the first hint that ground radar is locking on, supposedly to help keep Saddam on the defensive so that he can be overthrown. But while nobody's expecting that to happen any time soon, the bombing policy does create opportunities for Baghdad's campaign to end its isolation...
...strategic point of view, the "Iraqi opposition" for which Congress has earmarked $100 million is a fantasy, and there's a growing fear that the damage wrought by sanctions to Iraq's social fabric may have condemned the country to decades more of despotism. Even if Saddam were miraculously overthrown, it's extremely unlikely to be by a Jeffersonian democrat. And a decade of sanctions hasn't exactly fostered enthusiasm for the West among ordinary Iraqis...
...Chileans went to the polls during his 18-month absence and returned to power the same Socialist party Pinochet had overthrown in his 1973 coup, and despite the moderation of new president Ricardo Lagos, who was briefly jailed under the dictatorship, his government is quite happy to see Pinochet on the defensive. "For the most part this is simply going through the motions of stripping Pinochet of his immunity and of his glory in order to correct the historical record," says TIME Latin America bureau chief Tim McGirk. "Given his rapidly declining health he's unlikely ever to make...