The Middle East Poker* - Norman A. Bailey*

Left:U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and foreign ministers from Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Europe in Vienna, November 14, 2015  in a bid to step up diplomatic efforts to end the four-year-old conflict in Syria.Credit: Tusgaar.mn The chaotic, not to say anarchic situation in much…