The post I put up here yesterday was not optimally organized. That's one problem of having to work over a very slow internet connection... Anyway, the latter half of it included some observations about the precariousness of the geostrategic situation all the way from Lebanon to Afghanistan that I think are worthy of having their own separate post. So here, lightly re-edited, they are (again).
What I can say, just sitting here with my eyes and ears open and thinking about this complex region of the world, is that the regional situation seems fairly dangerous and potentially explosive. One reason is that all the competing forces are suddenly so deeply intermingled all the way from here to Afghanistan...
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