Saturday, February 11, 2012

Rumors Of War

Liz Sly surveys the discouraging news from the Middle East a year after the Arab spring:
“There are two different trajectories in the Middle East,” said Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. While “North Africa is moving toward more democracy,” he said, the Levant region — including Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq — is “moving toward confrontation and sectarian conflict. It is a much darker, gloomier trajectory.”

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