Iran-the pillar of the east?
The Arab world is a "problem child." Pakistan, Bangladesh and Indonesia are all tottering and quasi-stable at best. But they are the precipice of
bizarro world, not quite in its bosom, as the Arabs
are. Turkey is our western bulwark against
bizarro-Islam-perhaps non-Arab Iran could be our eastern wall? Thomas Friedman
thinks perhaps. Time is on our side. Cross your fingers.