Bloody change, as it seems odd to imagine Assad would negotiate his own ouster.
Both Turkey and the Gulf states populate a volatile region that has embarked on what is likely to be a decade of messy and at times violent and bloody change.
And "if the Tories win in 2009 we could see another bloody sea-change," sighs one developer.
He emphasized the case of Indonesia, which had recently undergone an elaborate and bloody regime change "from a pro-Chinese policy" to "a defiantly anti-Communist policy".
Both Still and Moore suspect that Antonio, the ostensibly virtuous nobleman who takes over is, in fact, a Machiavellian who is careful to keep his hands clean, while using the middle-class avengers to bring about bloody regime change by proxy.
Powell, Tony Blair's former chief of staff who was appointed by David Cameron last spring, is talking to the armed groups that have pushed the oil-rich north African country to the brink since its 2011 revolution, Nato and Arab military intervention and bloody regime change.
He's come a long way since 7 October 2009: "Bloody hell, things change fast on Twitter".
But a long, bloody campaign could change that, in Mali and elsewhere.
It also may have guaranteed a bloody weekend, and changed the rules of engagement for both sides, at least for now.
An anonymous briefer at Conservative Central Office said at the time that Hussey's job was "to make it bloody clear" that change was urgently required; he was "to get in there and sort it out".
