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Middle East Solution? Ignore It

The only option: "backward societies must be left alone"

By J. Kelman,  Newser User

Posted May 1, 2007 10:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – As experts scramble to respond to escalating crises in the Middle East, think-tanker Edward Luttwack has a novel solution—leave 'em be. The strategic implications of the Arab-Israeli crisis ended with the Cold War, he argues, and local regimes don't control oil supplies—oil companies...   Read full story »

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