Resolution of dilemma

Submitted by Devasahayam (United States), Jun 11, 2008 at 12:40

Accept that the Middle East cannot be stabilised except through despotism of a regional power--as it was under Ottoman Empire (Turkey) from 1453 to 1918.

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