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Very briefly noted.

Thomas Friedman in his op-ed column in the NYT on the 12th, on “Freud and the Middle East”, beginning:

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — When trying to make sense of the Middle East, one of the most important rules to keep in mind is this: What politicians here tell you in private is usually irrelevant. What matters most, and what explains their behavior more times than not, is what they say in public in their own language to their own people.

What Friedman discerned was two separate stories about a developing caliphate in the Middle East: a straightforwardly Shiite story and a straightforward Sunni story. Very worrisome indeed.

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