And it goes on to analyse thefalloutfromthe Iran-Iraq war, the crucial role Iran played in creating Hizbullah, the Shiite militia's wrongdoings in Lebanon, as well as Iran's more recent meddling in Iraq and its ambitions to join the small club of nuclear nations.
Mr Parra thinks this may reflect Dow's memory of the way the American government left it to pick up the legal falloutfromthe use of the notorious Agent Orange defoliant during the Vietnam war.