The Middle East
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We are seeing fewer and fewer pictures on the evening news of Palestinians and Israelis fighting with each other. But while this might seem to be a good thing - for surely no person can be counted good who wishes to see young people killing each other if the cause seems unwinnable and the casualty list unlimitable - in fact it simply indicates that at least for the moment things are worse in other parts of the world. And this is - as Telhami argues in The Stakes: America and the Middle East - problematic on two accounts. The first of these is relatively simple: Many civilians, no small number of them children, are being killed in this war, and this is by definition a tragedy. The second of these is more complex, and this latter is the central argument of this book.Telhami argues that the current administration presents an overly simplified view of the "war on terror" that tends to focus on one nation at a time and one cause at a time, neither of which is justified. But rather than simply blaming the Bush administration for specific policy decisions such as the decision to invade Iraq (although certainly Telhami does not believe that it is
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