It is so easy to be pessimistic about the Middle East. Too easy. And yet anyone who's lived through the post-World War II period and paid attention to that sad region knows it's entirely justified.
I've found you another pessimistic column about the Middle East, written by Beirut-based Robert Fisk for Britain's The Independent. Fisk argues that what's going on there now is counter-revolution, a reaction to the so-called Arab Spring.
Fisk writes a quite good column about the region and hardly mentions Israel. He writes about how screwed up the Arabs (and Persians and Kurds) are, how seemingly incapable of representative self-government. Oh, yes, and how equally confused western policies toward the region continue to be.
Hat tip to RealClearWorld for the link.
