Greater Middle East – report from the fields

... Gulf, is already burning with sparkles and hisses. The Great Middle East needs its own Westphalian peace. Nearby, on the other coast of the Persian (Arabic) Gulf is Iran, a country of the victorious democratic Islamism (Shiism). A bit to the North is Turkey - a country with an Islamic (Sunnite) democracy and an island of stability on the edge of a rampant and simmering region Still farther is Afghanistan, smelling with gun powder and opium and loud with explosions. The only common feature on this ...