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… and neither is the solution. The thing that has stuck with me the most about being in Benghazi in the aftermath of the 9/11 US mission attacks was watching the euphoria of society after ousting that ball of bad hair Muammar Gaddafi atomize into a civil war as the factions all hustled to get a piece of the action. Power vacuums are like that. That feeling returned last week and I wasn’t able to quite shake in the long 72 hours after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced

Leaving Ukraine - and Europe - to it's fate will trigger a chain reaction that we are not going to like.

No one with a soul wants to ask what the Israel/Hamas conflict is going to cost them, but someone is asking it.

The parallels are being drawn between the conflict in Israel and the troubles in Northern Ireland. And with good reason.