“your complete knowledge of the region begins and ends with what the US media serves up as “truth.” “— I have a computer and can read the speeches from Middle East Leaders at the UN, I can read the non-government agencies that monitor what happed during the Arab Spring, and those Countries all have newspapers with an international addition in English, mostly controlled by the Government, so I can read the Government’s point of view as well. I don’t know where you are from, but you do not have any more information about what goes on behind closed doors of government in the US or in the Middle East than I do.