Dominoes
Josh Marshall quotes Bill Odom saying, “A reverse domino theory may be playing out in the Middle East.”
I’m being overly pedantic, but a reverse domino theory would have all the dominoes, once having fallen down, standing up on their own again. That sounds nice, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, future historians may end up describing what’s happening in the Middle East exactly in terms of a domino effect—it’s just not the particular pattern that the Bush-Cheney administration has led us to believe would appear.
