In this brilliant piece Jon recaps the last three decades of United States intervention in the Middle East to show how incoherent and counter-productive it has been.

Someone could watch the evening news for a dozen years and not learn as much about the Middle East as they could from this two minute clip.

YouTube has a snippet from the brilliant movie "Why We Fight" with some of the history of US intervention in the Middle East.

Of the presidential candidates, Republican Ron Paul is among the most outspoken about the failures of our foreign policy.