The State Department (i.e. the Republican Party, as the Bush Regime unifies Party & Government just as the Communists did in the old Soviet Union) dispatched Alan Keyes to Illinois under the impression that it was a foreign country. They hoped he would take it over. But he was stymied and so thoroughly neutralized that Illinois did not even bother to take him to the border. Now he begs quarters at the airport and waits for the United States Government (i.e. the Republican Party) to rescue him. But Karl Rove and Dick Cheney (father of the daughter that Keyes likes to yell about) have something in mind for the somewhat brave Mr. Keyes: by this time next year they hope that he will be Senator from Iran.