The Globalist

It took the deaths of 2,300 U.S. soldiers and tens of thousands of Afghans to reach the agreement to end the longest war in U.S. history.

Terrorism, oil, the crisis in Iraq, the Syrian civil war and geopolitics all weigh against the birth of a new Kurdish state.

If the Israelis and the Palestinians learned to live in peace, it would usher in a renaissance the likes of which has never been seen before.