Middle East

When there's news in the Middle East that's obviously complicated enough that watching the news just makes me more and more confused about what's really going on, I turn to Juan Cole's blog Informed Comment. He's on top of this new, scary round of border fighting between Israel and Lebanon with a long post which includes this scary little comment:

Yes, I am saying that Wahhabi Saudi Arabia and the Bush administration Secretary of State are the adults in all this.

That's the closest thing to good news that he has to offer, I'm afraid.