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March 25, 2012

U.S. Must Rethink Its Entire Mideast Policy

Thomas Friedman, New York Times

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What ails the Middle East today truly is a toxic mix of tribalism, Shiite-Sunni sectarianism, fundamentalism and oil - oil that constantly tempts us to intervene or to prop up dictators.

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