Well, color me shocked. Turkey is on the verge of accepting the creation of Kurdistan. The Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the announcement. I’m very impressed. It’s obvious that I completely misjudged the Turks. Here’s what Saudi Arabia said in June of 2015. [Anwar…
Posturing staves off disaster in the Middle East
February 3, 2016
One of the reasons that westerners can’t solve the problems in the Middle East is that we can’t distinguish between genuine threats and posturing. I admit that I myself have this deficit. It’s not possible for me to tell what’s real and what’s a performance. However, Middle Easterners understand what’s actually going on. There’s always…