When Robert Kaplan has an insight on the Middle East

Wake up the children and release the pigs from the barn. Robert Kaplan has an insight on the Middle East and here it is: "The Middle East is back to where it was centuries ago, not because of ancient hatreds but because of globalization. Instead of bold lines on a map we have a child’s messy finger painting, as the circumvention of borders and the ease of communications allow the brisk movement of ideas and people and terrorists from one place to another. Our best strategy is, as difficult and trite as it sounds, to be at all places at once, Not with troops, necessarily, but with every bit of energy and constant attention that our entire national security apparatus — and those of our allies — can bring to bear." But the sentence "The Middle East is back to where it was centuries ago" says it all. It is the epitome of classical (ignorant as opposed to erudite) Orientalism.