I don't condemn what I do not understand, and the Middle East is not my particular area of current, intense study. When I lack information, context, or understanding, I watch but I do not evaluate. I don't think anyone has the right to evaluate what is not understood well.

In some ways it seems clear to me that the situation there has changed a great deal since it WAS an area of intense study; in other ways it seems not to have changed at all, for hundreds of years. What I DO know about the Middle East is that it is more culturally and historically complex than can be quickly understood.

~Susan