Mr Kaplan has a book worth reading,
it reads like a travelog yet is infused with history,politics and humanity.
The information rounded out the things I already knew about the region and then took it one step further… there is a national mindset in that region that I was not quite ready for,
yet somehow already knew on one level what it was like.
I still don’t understand the hatered that seems to infuse the nations towards its peoples but at least now I have a better grasp of what happened in the past and will better understand any thing new that might develop.wellworth the time spent reading.