(Wall Street Journal) Aaron David Miller - The Middle East's challenges are rooted in internal, religious, and sectarian problems that are not amenable or conducive to U.S. military power or political persuasion. Whatever responsibility U.S. action or inaction bears for the state of the Middle East, it pales next to that of a region that lacks leadership, representative institutions, moderate ideologies, a commitment to functional governance, and a willingness to face its problems. The writer is a vice president at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars.
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