SEARCH BLOG: MIDDLE EAST
Last century, the comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello performed this routine'
It reminds me an awful lot about the Middle East with the Shia and Sunni and Hamas and Fatah and Hezbolla....
While well intentioned, the idea of a melting pot democracy like the U.S. existing in the Middle East just does not seem possible. Last year when Robert Reich suggest that Iraq be partitioned like Yugoslavia, I wasn't much of a supporter of the idea. But what is going on in the Middle East is 3,000 year old tribalism that is not ready for the 21st century.
Perhaps the time has come. All of you al-so-and-sos go find your own sandbox and play in it and don't come out. Maybe then we'll know who's on first.
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