Four New Dangers in the Middle East

Ever since I was born in 1946, the Middle East has been at the core of the most enduring, most vexing, and most economically impactful conflicts on Earth. The region has generated eight major wars, scores of lesser skirmishes, plus a cascade of political assassinations, acts of terror and revolutions. It has triggered at least four global economic upheavals. It has repeatedly caused chaos in the world’s most advanced industrial nations. And now, despite one of the most concerted — and frustrating — multinational peace initiatives ever mounted by the global powers, it is about to do it AGAIN! Israel and Iran are on the brink of an all-out war. Syria is . . . → Read More: Four New Dangers in the Middle East