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The R-word
Why is that "regime" is being bandied about in connection with several Asian countries? I saw the word used in reference to "the former Taleban regime" today. It might not take too long for me to find mention of "the regime in Pyongyang," or find some official blustering about problems with the regimes in Damascus or Tehran.
People , following the cue of El Presidente, seem to think the word means "dictatorship" or "non-democracy," when the word -- a FRENCH word (perhaps the adherents of this childish France-bashing missed that one) -- simply denotes a mode or form of government. Yet it's being used as a derogatory --or perhaps defaming -- classifier for any leader/leadership that the White Junta (or their supporters) wants to isolate, cajole, bomb.
Actions that will only create more impetus for a "regime change" here -- at the polls in 2004, and I hope in the attitude and actions of policymakers thereafter.
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"Don't tread on me, either."
HST 1937-2005
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