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/p> p> Mr. Babbin is right. Three to four years ago, before last election, I heard on a Washington Journal moment the Assistant Editor of the Times and others discuss cutting their overseas budget to concentrate on influencing the political situation back home. So help me. br> -- Bill Dukas /p>

Reading both "Role Reversal" (Loose Canons/Babbin) and "'Yes' on October 15" (At Large/Walsh [more below]) made me see the parallel of two out-of-power minorities: Sunnis in Iraq and liberals in U.S.

Without their Baathist thugs to keep the Shiites suppressed, the Sunnis are desperate, and think that if they cause enough terror and pain, everyone will give them their way. It sounds like a five-year-old child's strategy, but it seems to work with France and Spain.

Without a majority in the House, and inconsistent control of the Executive, liberals are beginning to lose their advantage in the judiciary. The liberals in the minority party are providing ever increasing levels of violent rhetoric and legal attacks. They seem to think that if they complain enough, and forestall the majority party, then the folks who elected the majority will change sides. That sounds like the five-year-old child's strategy again.

A big question is what will liberals do as their time in the minority lengthens? Will their frustration push them to escalate? Will liberals follow the example of the minority party Sunnis in Iraq and use improvised explosive devices? Some liberals did that during the large riots and demonstrations of the 1960s and 1970s.

p>I hope that they do not. They should leave that to the eco-terrorists, who aren't trying to be elected... are they? br> -- Newt Love br> Annapolis, Maryland

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