The Middle East Chaos.

There is a lot of activity at the moment at the United Nations to get agreement on a form of words that is supposedly the first step to stopping the chaos. The agreement between the United States and France may be forthcoming and other nations may row in behind this agreement. We will then end up with a piece of paper to odd to the pile of many other resolutions ignored by every side going back over fifty years.

The major player in the Middle East is Iran and how we can expect to arrive at some sort of peace without involving it and, to a lesser extent, Syria beggars belief. The tragedy will continue until we stop this simplistic talk of an 'axis of evil', imposing democracy whether people want it or not and engage realistically with those who are the major players. When we see Mr Blair and Dr Rice jetting off to Tehran and Damascus we can then realistically hope that a solution might, just might, be possible.