Haroon Moghul

A barrage of articles on the Middle East have only made it more confusing. Here are two that actually help.

Where Bush offered shock and awe, Obama offers the hem and haw. War, but not a serious one; aid, but of the “non-lethal kind”; a desire to draw red lines, but a tendency to hope nobody notices them.

When all you have left is a drone, every problem looks like collateral damage.