A vision, somewhat like the airborne toxic event in Delillo's "White Noise," begins to take form behind the incessant news coverage of the fighting in Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan. This cloudy menace appears to me in the form of a question.
Is it possible this Administration put the current hot conflicts into motion in the belief that the US can realign the region by inflaming the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites?
Could all this be part of a grand design? Or has the United States been guilty of merely pasting feathers together, hoping for a duck?