I promise in the near future I will actually post something original instead of just links to someone else’s content. But in the meantime, this is a pretty good video primer on the geopolitics of the middle east. I think it does a decent job of explaining why giving up and coming home would lead to a much bigger disaster. The correspondant asserts that the problem has more to do with politics than religion, but his message falls flat since it’s clear that it’s religion driving the politics. Otherwise, it seems like he hits the highlights.
That was a good presentation. What a quagmire!