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[Anne Bargar]

This week in the Middle East

It's almost like two kids who won't stay on their own side of the back
seat of the family station wagon (wood panelled, of course),
who poke each other and say "FNAY!" and then claim they didn't do
anything;
Or the ex-lovers who can't get along, and each one approaches you saying
the other one is crazy.  

It's almost like that, except that one side has bigger guns
and the other side
has far more casualties.


-babz