An Uncertain Middle East After Assad

Robert Kaplan, Foreign Policy
The late Princeton scholar Philip K. Hitti called Greater Syria -- the historical antecedent of the modern republic -- "the largest small country on the map, microscopic in size but cosmic in influence," encompassing in its geography, at the confluence of Europe, Asia, and Africa, "the history of the civilized world in a miniature form." This is not an exaggeration, and because it is not, the current unrest in Syria is far more important than unrest we have seen anywhere in the Middle East."Syria" was the 19th-century Ottoman-era term for a region that stretched...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/22/an_uncertain_middle_east_after_assad_254253.html

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