Sometimes it is hard to keep up with activity in the Middle East without a scorecard. However, if we keep our eye upon the donut and not upon the hole, we can see where our interests lie and how we can influence the action to best serve them. First, we must recognize that the real main contest in the Middle East is the age-old contest of Sunni vs. Shia.  Here it would appear that our interests are clear.  Iran is the champion of the Shia.  Iran has all of the other Shia groups of the Middle East as clients: Assad's Alawites in Syria, Hezb'allah of Lebanon, the Houthi of Yemen, and the Shia of the rump Iraq based in Baghdad.  Iran is the biggest exporter of terror in the world and is responsible for some of the American causalities in Iraq and Afghanistan. If this is not enough, we and the U.N. recently concluded an agreement with Iran regarding Iran's development of nuclear weapons.  The agreement was supposed to limit Iran's ability...(Read Full Article)