The Middle East and the New World Order - can the region be rebuilt?
Every few decades a more expansive kind of diplomatic introspection becomes necessary when the past assumptions of foreign policy no longer seem applicable.
Security forces are seen at the Iraqi-Syrian border crossing, after it has been reopened for trade and travel, in Al Qaim, Iraq September 30, 2019(photo credit: REUTERS/THAIER AL-SUDANI)ByDORE GOLD