"That broader perspective is necessary if only because it's the best way to deflate the delusional bubbles of people like Clinton, Wolfowitz, et al. Iraq, Libya, Syria -- these societies didn't just pop into existence when they started showing up on CNN. They're the product of millennia of history, and that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa. Against that, our Beltway Caesars are going to set up suburbia with a few well-aimed bombing missions and a "moderate" "government" constructed from a gang of hotel exiles?!?!" SG
"...that history is set in perhaps the most dynamic region in human experience, the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa..." SG
The Middle East, as Rufus Fears reiterated, has always been the graveyard of empires.
A very dynamic graveyard, to paraphrase SG.
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