A Letter to the Earth: Defining the Middle East and Its Levels of Warfare Today is an illustrated opinion essay about a modern-day tragedy, the looming, enormous loss to us as a Western civilization of an ancient and vital part of the world, the Middle East. The three millennia-old story of the Middle East is eventuating into the quandary of our time.
The essay's full-color maps and photographs of architectural masterpieces emblematic...