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...