[Sherman Logan]

Britain and France, with little consideration for sectarian or ethnic realities, drew lines across the area and established the new countries of Iraq and Syria.

An unfair criticism. There were no possible lines that could have given each group its own "nation." They've been intermixed for a thousand years or more.

Not that the Europeans cared, one way or another.

[cuban leaf]

Anybody notice that all the fragmenting of the middle east - ALL of it - is happening under Obama’s watch. And it’s not over.