Here we all sit in the comfort of our homes, typing away passionately...feverishly debating the tension in the Middle East.
I sit here and watch the screen and scream at the journalists. Children outside of my apartment window playing on the playground stare inside at the angry man screaming at Chris Matthews.
The death and destruction and the suffering and the bullshit spin of it all make me so fucking infuriated I just want to put my foot through the damn screen.
I'm pissed...and we all should be.
Most of us contributing to this site and this debate have never set foot in the Middle East. And most of us...judging from the diaries and comments I've read, do not have a firm grasp on the realities of what is going on there, and the history of the region.
I am not qualified or educated enough to give history lessons on the Middle East. When it comes to understanding a subject, I try and seek unbiased, expert opinion. And when it comes to the middle east, I always come back to one person:
Robert Fisk.
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