strunkenwhite
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Sure, but what I'm saying is that if you get two thirds of them on board (this would include both parties), reversing course isn't something that is just going to happen at the flap of a butterfly's wings.The Senate isn't like the Supreme Court. It shifts alignment too on a scale of four to six years, typically starting the shift a bit ahead of presidential shifts. It's theoretical buffering effect mostly relies on the assumption by the framers that there wouldn't be only two significant political parties.
Great, so that's even more reason for American military presence to stick around the region. Not as close as Turkey, but closer than Germany.The need to guard against militant Islam is far more urgent in 1992. Most of the troublemakers there are already in power. Russia is still lead by Boris Yeltsin. With foresight I would expect a stronger and earlier conservative middle east hawk movement not a weaker one.