Changing Middle East looks depressingly like what it replaces

I think what hit me most about this article is that I found it on CNN.com -- and then to boot in "Fareed Zakaria GPS". The fact is though that it makes for interesting reading.
See http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/21/changing-middle-east-looks-depressingly-like-what-it-replaces/?hpt=hp_t2

Rabbi Ben Hecht