> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15948.htm
>
> End of the strongmen
> Do America and Israel want the Middle East engulfed by civil war?
>
> By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
>
> 12/19/06 "Information Clearing House" -- The era of the Middle East
> strongman, propped up by and enforcing Western policy, appears well
> and truly over. His power is being replaced with rule by civil war,
> apparently now the American Administration's favoured model across the
> region.
>
The only weak point in this article is the implication that there's a
50/50 split among those who want continued US and Israeli management, vs
those who don't.
Joanna