Sunday, March 27, 2011
The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun
Robert Kaplan, Wall Street JournalIranians attend a Friday prayer service in February. If Iran's theocracy prevails, it will signal a fundamental eclipse of American influence in the Middle East.Despite the military drama unfolding in Libya, the Middle East is only beginning to unravel. American policy-makers have been spoiled by events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which boast relatively sturdy institutions, civil society associations and middle classes, as well as being age-old clusters of civilization where states of one form or another have existed since antiquity. Darker terrain awaits us elsewhere in the region,...
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