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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East?
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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (15128)8/9/2006 9:41:54 PM
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We are now focused on the skirmish (war) between Israel and Lebanon. Previously there was US intervention in Afghanistan, perhaps because the Afghan tribes couldn't guarantee safe passage for an oil pipeline. Now, there is the prospect of the Militarization of the eastern Mediterranean. So much revolves around the Caspian Sea and the pools of oil in its area. And, according to the article Russia plans to establish a naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus.

I can't vouch for the accuracy of the above article, for we know lots of opinions are printed as "fact." But, this article posits the possibility of a slightly different point of view about Iranian ambitions with the use of its Hizbollah in Syria.

All of this may be just another variation on the theme of The Great Game, a term usually attributed to Arthur Conolly used to describe the rivalry and strategic conflict between the British Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. The term was later popularized by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his work, Kim. In Russia the same rivalry and strategic conflict was known as the Tournament of Shadows (??????? ?????). The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running from approximately 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second, less intensive phase followed.
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