What the Iraq crisis means for the world as well as for India

July 14, 2014 14:23

The Middle East is back, and back with a bang. For some time now, the West -- the United States of America in particular -- had lulled itself into believing that if it would only ignore the region, its problems would go away.

After all, at a time of diminishing economic resources in the West, the Indo-Pacific, with a rising China at the centre of its changing strategic landscape, was the region that deserved greater attention.

The strategically diffident Barack Obama administration embraced this thinking with great enthusiasm partly for sound economic reasons and partly because it saw no need for the US to get bogged down in the millennium-old Shia-Sunni feuds. Read

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