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Article: Debunking The Domino theory: a leaked State Department report casts doubt on the idea that the brave new Iraq the Bush administration anticipates, can ever be achieved. (Regional).
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- The Middle East
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- May 1, 2003
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A classified 26 February State Department document titled Iraq, the Middle East and Change: No Dominoes, has been leaked to the US media. Under the "domino" clause, the document debunks the theory that fostering democracy in Iraq will have a positive effect on the political systems of Jordan, Syria, Iran and even Egypt--something the Bush administration has been using as justification for its Iraqi war.
"This idea that you are going to transform the Middle East and fundamentally alter its trajectory is simply not credible," officials who have studied the document conclude. Produced by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence--an in-house `think-tank'--the ...