es Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 11:04:32 +0000 None of Shakespeare's plays were published for mass distribution during his lifetime. 'When I use a word, Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' - Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass Drink

so angered many Syrian citizens that he has probably lost any chance of rebuilding a unified country. As one U.S. official noted, "It's like asking Humpty Dumpty to put himself back together." The United States needs a strategy for a long fight. If the goal is an eventual political balance in Syria, the opp

of the Middle East has likely changed forever as a result of the Arab Spring, and the United States has neither the resources nor the power to put Humpty Dumpty back together again. We must acknowledge this fact and forge an emergency oil stocks policy that fits 21st-century realities. Not only does Washing