"The painful reality is that America is stuck in a broken and dysfunctional Middle East, trapped by..."

“The painful reality is that America is stuck in a broken and dysfunctional Middle East, trapped by its own lofty rhetoric and illusions, and tied up and befriended or opposed by tiny tribes and larger powers whose interests are not its own.”

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Aaron David Miller, Obama Is Right: America Can’t Fix the Middle East

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/146893981317