Why is everyone so juvenile about this? It’s time to bring everyone together and beat John McCain. Hillary doesn’t want people behaving vindictively.

In fact, the Noriega/Marcos crew appears to have best helped the Shah with his stay in Panama shortly before his death.

Who exactly was close to those extremists, and who helped fund Iraq’s war with Iran?

The GOP.
Carter’s loss was a soft coup that ushered in Reagan.

Made 2000 seem like a walk in the park, or a stroll through the courthouse, led by RNC Congressional aides who ferried an Enron jet to Miami Dade.

So your calling out of Carter seems out of context, he paid the penultimate political price in providing diplomatic cover to a man who was a long standing part of Ike’s foreign policy aims.

If that occurred in Haiti and elsewhere, Carter would claim the election invalid. The USA is no different. It’s “one person, one vote” — no ands, ifs, or buts.

As for Lebanon being terrorist, how many emerging states surive a barrage of attacks by their neighboring country to the extent Israel has pummeled others?

Bomb Syria and lie about it for political points and to influence American electoral outcomes. That’s what we’d like all of our client states to do, I guess.

The first countries to help us against Al Qaeida, on the very day of 9-11, were Syria and Iraq, both of which feared the group and its pan Sunni ties to Saudi Venture backing.

The point of talking to other countries is valid. It’s simply a matter of Obama’s own donor portfolio being full of crooks and wise guys who are least likely to shape long term benefit for any deals we broker if Barack gets the nod, due to his own conflicts of interest with said wise guys like Rezko.

You could try flowery language to get a similar point across, otherwise your closing statement undermines the point you try to make.