Knitting Therapy

just finished what might be THE MOST BORING book on soviet policy toward the Middle East. "Moscow and the Middle East" by Robert O. Freeman. It covers Brezhnev to 1989 and goes so in depth on every single change of policy and every single action in middle eastern politics that it totally misses the point. In the chapters intended to support the argument that there are few real changes in soviet policy toward the middle east and that the offensive policy overall has been a failure, Freeman manages instead to show through minute changes that there IS no continuity in SU policy because there doesn't seem to BE "A Policy" of the USSR toward the Middle East.

Bah. Whatev. At least I'm done with the 5 books I have to read for Russian history, now.