One for the Road

In less than 12 hours I'm going to be on a plane home to visit family & friends back in BC for 12 days. Couldn't be happier about it. But as always, politics is always on my mind. According to a headline story in the Washington Post, Secretary of State Condi Rice has requested from Congress a whole lotta money to support pro-democracy activists in Iran and create internal dissent to overthrow the mullahs. This would put us in 1997, according to the old Iraqi timeline, though with all the other stuff that's ongoing between Washington and Tehran, there's room for fluctuation all the way up to September 18, 2001. We're a long way from the brink, but one of the best attributes of realism is the werewithal that future uncertainty must come into play when discussing any long-term policy. Keep your eyes peeled for this one to continue developing in a negative way. Every move and counter-move so far points to conflict being inevitable.