Insights About Conflict in the Middle East

I certainly don’t have any, so I direct you first to this post by Hilzoy, which does the exceptionally useful job of laying about the underlying facts and dilemmas in a lucid manner. For analysis, see Jonathan. And E. J. Dionne notes that the Domino (or as he calls it, the “Big Bang”) Theory justification for the Iraq war can officially be buried. But I was so convinced that pro-American and Israeli liberal democracies were going to sweep the region–after all, there are a lot of pretty women in Lebanon!