New world order arrives in Middle East and West is playing catch-up

Here in Canada and in Europe, while the news has been all about Tunisia, Egypt and Libya for weeks, our political leaders carry on regardless, blithely debating the size of our prisons or whether to subsidize sports arenas, while the world is being reshap

In the Middle East disappearing dictators signal the collapse of another piece of the Cold War's architecture, more than two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall sealed the fate of Communism and the Soviet Union. This is no mere historical oddity, however, for the unpredictable result may we...

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