>>Mike, Mike, Mike. You should really lose the delusion that freedom will "spread throughout the Middle East, Asia, and Africa." It ain't gonna happen. It isn't even going to last in Iraq when we are no longer there to prop it up at gunpoint. Iraq will plunge into civil war and at the end of it a new strongman -- more likely, a Muslim theocracy similar to the one in Iran -- will emerge. Iraqis won't be any more free than they ever were.
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>Is the former Soviet Union part of Asia? Just curious, I couldn't find it on Google...

If you accept the urals as the eastern boundary between europe and asia then the Soviet Union is both European and asian (Eurasian)

Nick