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Middle East Policy and Terrorism

Peter’s blog raises a number of issues. I will comment on only two at this point.

First, when we talk about rearranging or fixing the Middle East, we should remember that someone tried this before. The Middle East looks and acts as it does today in large part because of rearranging that Europeans performed after WWI. Why do we think we will do any better?

Two, contrary to Peter’s suggestion, I do not think it will do us much good to have troops and ships permanently stationed in the Middle East. In fact, I think it will probably make things worse.

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