Whiletalking aboutthreatsandpressuresfaced by Lebanon and Syria, LAHOODsaid that exertingthreat and pressureis to make Lebanon and Syria changetheirprinciplesdominating in nation and state.
Curiously, such sentiments seem to be dominating Bush Administration policy toward the region at the very moment that State Department experts are confronting the unravelling of one of their principal theses, i.e.
With state-controlled giants such as OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom dominating the oil and gas sector, most future foreign investment will be directed at sectors like automobiles and retail-related services, says Peter Westin, chief economist at the Aton brokerage in Moscow.