A huge amount of what goes on in the Middle East has to do with people being fed really bad information.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
I have a background and an understanding of what's happened in the Middle East that a lot of people don't have, because there's been no interest.
There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got something to say and it's usually wrong.
The global importance of the Middle East is that it keeps the Far East and the Near East from encroaching on each other.
The U.S. media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world.
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Everybody in the Middle East wants to explain why they're right.
People make mistakes. And one of the mistakes that the United States consistently made was that it could intervene and somehow adjust people's governments, especially in the Middle East.
People's minds are overloaded with information.
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
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