A legacy of bad choices in the Middle East
The world’s worst dilemmas are characterised by a lack of good options. Indeed, that’s the definition of a dilemma. But bad options are often the result of bad choices. This is the case in the Middle East. In “The Prize,” his massive Pulitzer-Prize-winning history of oil, Daniel Yergin suggests that the first bad choice for that most intractable of trouble spots occurred in 1911. Winston Churchill, Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty, concluded that war with Germany had become inevitable, and he decided to convert his nation’s warships to ...
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