"The very idea that the United States seriously believes—alone or with its partners—that it can..."

“The very idea that the United States seriously believes—alone or with its partners—that it can address, much less resolve, the challenges of governance, sectarian conflict, religious divisions, hatreds, lack of respect for human rights, and the conspiratorial and irrational reasoning that afflict large parts of the Arab world is a leap of arrogance and ignorance so large that it threatens to consume what’s left of American credibility.”

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

from Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/post/146923467937