I'm not too sure about that. I'm just reminded of how the Bush- administration has managed to stall any of these things for years already. "Just wait until after the election". Take the 911- recommendations, for instance. Or the Senate Intelligence report. No, I think this is another of those stunts by the Bush- administration to speak loudly about something for a while, and then do nothing and continue to stay the course.

We've heard the same thing earlier about Iran, as you say. But also Iraq, Libya at first, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Pakistan and North Korea in particular - name anything the cronies at the state- department have been doing for the last six years, and you find the same approach - talk about change, and then fail to do anything but simply not speaking to evil, staying the course, and expecting change in their "evil ways", to quote George himself. But Ghadaffi did play them on this, and gave up just about nothing in exchange for good graces with Washington. And it actually has been lauded by the Bush- administration as the one thing that did actually work with their policy, for instance. Their shills routinely defend that as a great success, too. Something in the line of how great the Lebanese democracy was.. at least for a while.

So it's not like this is anything new..