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I resolved not to blog for the past couple of weeks whilst honeymooning in Europe, and of course missed out on huge and tragic news. I'm referring, of course, to the Carmen Electra-David Navarro breakup.

But also to the conflagration in the Middle East. On the plane home from Prague the other day, I read the International Herald Tribune and noted Edward Luttwak's cogent argument that a wider war is unlikely: The players, most importantly Syria and Iran, simply have too much to lose. On the same page (and I take it the New York Times had a similar juxtaposition), an editorial says that "The only beneficiaries of a wider war would be Iran, Syria and the armed Islamic radical groups that they support throughout the region." Come again?

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Islam, Iran