"We had a legal problem with regime change," he says.
Some rice is available, only allowed through traders who trade with regime, and it's too costly.
There was a "sea change" in attitudes to containment but the UK still had "a legal problem" with regime change.
With regime change in the 90s, the bulldozer of history was rapidly cleared traces of the B-scheme.
"It started with regime change in Iraq, and we've seen our challenges associated with that," Mr. Chafee said.
The street-fighting for Abu Salim was particularly fierce with regime snipers taking a steady toll among the ranks of al-Shabaab volunteer fighters.
Chinese businessmen have formed lucrative real-estate and other partnerships with regime insiders; they now own concessions for teak, jade, and crude oil.
"They will spend their time in meaningless meetings with regime officials, or opposition figures who have no presence on the ground".
For much of the past few years, American policy towards Venezuela has been run by junior officials who have appeared to flirt with regime change.
Northern Syria had turned into an anarchic state with rebel groups fighting each other, temporary local truces being forged at times with regime forces.
It is useful to the regime for similar reasons, and is located on the road linking Damascus with regime strongholds on the coast.
