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Ghitis: Why the Middle East is a mess

Egyptian President Mubarak Welcomes Secretary Clinton, Palestinian President Abbas, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu
Egyptian President Mubarak Welcomes Secretary Clinton, Palestinian President Abbas, and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu by U.S. Department of State
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(CNN) -- Have you looked at the Middle East lately? It's a giant mess, with civil wars, massive popular protests, cross-border fighting, armed insurgencies, exploding car bombs and on and on. And that's just in the past few days. The Middle East refuses to acknowledge that the United States has decided to pivot toward Asia. It refuses to step out of the spotlight. What we see today is proof that long-standing notions about the region -- the old conspiracy theories, the oversimplifications -- were just not true. Claims that the world paid attention to the area only because it had oil or that the key to every single problem in the Middle East involved Israel have been proved wrong.

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