Thursday, 29 August 2013

The Complete Idiot’s Chart to Understanding the Middle East

You got that?  Because it will all be in the exam.

Seriously, and scarily, you could have drawn a similar sort of chart about the Balkans a century ago. And we know how that ended up…

[Pic from Washington Post, hat tip Stephen Hicks]

3 comments:

Andrew B said...

Does Israel support the Syrian rebels?

Terry said...

Shouldn't there be all red arrows pointing back at the US, except for Israel?

Peter Cresswell said...

@Terry: I guess they're trying to minimise the amount of red ink...