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After all, popular protests have failed to gather steam;Bashar al-Assad’s regime has held firm in Syria; and Egypt, with neither a constitution nor a parliament, has apparently veered from democracy, if not descended into chaos.

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That's where Joshua descended and crossed the Jordan and led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan 3,000 years ago in this final leg of the journey from Africa.

While I was absent from Iran, the Islamic Revolution had descended on Iran and had entirely transformed the country from Persian to the Islamic culture.

That's not possible in Latin America where land is held onto by a tiny elite descended from the conquistadors.

It looked like the apocalypse had descended.

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