Deepak Tripathi

His­to­ry has the an­swer for the tur­bu­lent Mid­dle East of to­day.

With deep mu­tu­al dis­trust, Oba­ma and Karzai con­sid­er their lega­cies.

At­ten­tion may now turn from the Arab up­ris­ings to Afghanistan as the US and NATO forces pre­pare to leave in 2014.

US com­man­do raids in Libya and So­ma­lia show Amer­i­can pow­er, and its lim­its, where an­ar­chy rules af­ter state de­struc­tion.

De­spite Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syr­ia, the idea of Amer­i­can ex­cep­tion­al­ism re­mains em­bed­ded in the US psy­che.

Par­lia­ment’s re­jec­tion of Syr­ia in­ter­ven­tion will have im­por­tant reper­cus­sions in Britain as well as abroad.

Ex­ces­sive ide­o­log­i­cal zeal, im­mod­er­ate sin­cer­i­ty and de­ter­mi­na­tion to fight to the fin­ish are fu­elling Syr­ia’s cri­sis.

Be­hind the bloody con­flict in Egypt is a state of de­nial among com­pet­ing ac­tors of each oth­er’s place in so­ci­ety.

The mil­i­tary over­throw of Pres­i­dent Mor­si is not a coup for democ­ra­cy, but an old rem­e­dy that has long failed.