Sam Kiley of Sky News has a recent report that is illuminating in its honest pessimism about the Islamic conflicts in the Middle East. And because they can't seem to be resolved, their desperate savagery has made its way to the west in the form of meaningless "terror".
There are a lot of issues Kiley mentions and the most important are whether foreign intervention is always a good idea and whether one can make a silk purse out of the sows''s ear that is the modern radical Islamic collective.