Varieties of follyAs the Anglo-Americans start to unpack their box of military tricks in their quest to remove what in essence is a terror regime of totalitarian gangsters and sadists, and, hopefully, give the long-suffering Iraqis a civil society … one cannot help recalling the wistful dream of the pre-1914 British Foreign Office that the Ottoman Empire might remain in some form in the Middle East. All their fears of what might follow its inevitable disappearance are coming home to roost.Outs…
