The Trouble With Middle East Op-Eds

Tim Kowal ghettoizes reams of foreign policy opinion:

People make flip assessments about domestic policy because, well, it's domestic policy, and we're going to have opinions about where we live.  Besides, we're forced to be somewhat engaged and to develop our ideas because, at least to some extent, we all reap the consequences of those policies.

Not so with what goes one half a globe away, as most of us have no first-hand knowledge about what's going on.  And the problems are toxic, complex...