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October 11, 2012
Loomings
Spengler: The horizon collapses in the Middle East When the future irrupts into the present, nations take existential risks.Iran will pursue nuclear ambitions that almost beg for military pre-emption; Egypt will pursue a provocative course of Islamist expansion that cuts off its sources of financial support at a moment of economic desperation; Syria's Alawites, Sunnis, Kurds and Druze will fight to bloody exhaustion; Iraq will veer towards a civil war exacerbated by outside actors; and Turkey will lash out in all directions. And in the West, idealists will be demoralized and realists will be confused, the former by the collapse of interest in deals, the latter by the refusal of all players in those countries to accept reality.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 11, 2012 5:20 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
...and Bill Clinton will whinge on stage, "Nobody could have done anything about this. It was too difficult."
Posted by: Jason in SD at October 12, 2012 12:56 PM