[MestaMachine]

This seems very oversimplified to me, and even somewhat naive, but I am not familiar with previous work, so withold judgement.
You DON’T want to get me started on McChrystal and Afghanistan. OR the backward trend in Iraq. OR the insanity in Pakistan.
And NOW we can add Yemen, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, to Sudan, Egypt, and more to the creeping war zones of muslim terrorism threatening to start literal tribal warfare all over the African continent.
Just saying.

[JustPiper]

I betchya Ian would like to banter with you :)

[hennie pennie]

An OP ED piece for the Sunday Times typically is a short concise overview -- an OP ED is not investigative journalism; the author of this OP ED was responsible for keeping this Thread Matrix going for many years, and he is the person who did most of the HTML work at the beginnings of each of the dozens of threads threough the years.

The New York Times is VERY selective in what it publishes for OP EDs and obviously it was very interested in this extremely well written piece by experts with the Brookings Institute.