After Iraq: What Will the Middle East Look Like?
This cover art accompanied an article by Jeffrey Goldberg entitled "After Iraq," in The Atlantic, January-February 2008. Goldberg:
"It used to be that the most far-reaching and inventive question one could ask about the
Middle East was this: How many states, one or two—Israel or a Palestinian state, or both—will one day exist on the slip of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River?
"Today, that question seems trivial when compared with this one: How many states
Will there one day be between the Mediterranean and the Euphrates River? Three? Four? Five? Six? And why stop at the western bank of the Euphrates? Why not go all the way to the Indus River? Between the Mediterranean and the Indus today lie Israel and the Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Long-term instability could lead to the breakup of many of these states."
The full article is here:
www.theatlantic.com/doc/200801/goldberg-mideast