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To: LindyBill who wrote (102745)	3/1/2005 2:44:38 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793927

Hewitt - When I left Washington, D.C. as the sun set on the Reagan Administration in early 1989, I did not think that the collapse of the Soviet Empire was in the cards. Great progress had been made, and Ronald Reagan had pushed the Soviets into internal reform, but no one saw the cracks in the wall so clearly as to predict the collapse of our arch-foe. Then it happened. The rush of events was dizzying, and I thought unlikely to be repeated in my lifetime. Now the sense of imminent and profound change sweeping through the oppressed peoples of the Middle East is too strong to ignore. With hundreds of thousands of Lebanese demanding their freedom, can the people of Iran who have pushed for freedom before be far behind? And can the Syrian thugs not see the writing on the wall. Retreat at this point has got to seem the better option than continued hostility towards both their neighbors.