It's easy enough to mock this vision of guerrilla moderates taking over the Capitol.
Iran's supreme leader has formally endorsed Hassan Rouhani as the country's president, opening the way for the moderate cleric to take over from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ms. Giffords and Ms. Gillibrand were part of the "red to blue" Democratic Party strategy to get moderate Democrats to take over Republican districts.
And Israelis fear that if a moderate were to take over, it would not herald any real change in Iran, or its nuclear ambitions, but simply disguise it better.
Rather than being a dark vision of a world ruled by mad mullahs, it presents the moderate Muslims who take over France as a force of spiritual integrity and revolutionary verve, "a historic opportunity for the moral and familial rearmament of Europe"; the real targets of the book are France's bloated institutions, its venal politicians, its sclerotic literary scene.
"Chavismo succeeded in bending Globovision to its will in an indirect way that avoided the political cost of the RCTV closure". Canizalez said a bad sign for those who still hope the station will retain its independence was the last-minute refusal of former Ambassador Vladimir Villegas, a Chavista turned moderate critic, to take over as news director for the new owners.
With jihadist forces including Isis being funded from Saudi and Qatari sources, there was never much chance of a "moderate opposition" taking over in the event of Assad's defeat.
Already, there are signs that the network of moderates is taking over key jobs.
Meanwhile Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and still leader of the biggest of those "moderate forces" Israel expects to take over in Gaza, remains marooned in his Ramallah headquarters, assailed by Palestinians outraged by the Israeli action but powerless to do anything about it.That powerlessness, concedes a PA minister, merely helps Hamas.
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