Who mediates when the mediator gets bombed?
The Middle East is at war again. The country that spent fifty years keeping back-channels open just got caught in the crossfire.
Most of you know I grew up in Oman. My family moved to Muscat in 2001, a few months before September 11. I was six then. I’ve written about this before, and I won’t rehash it, except to say that when you spend twelve years somewhere as a child, the place doesn’t stay foreign to you. And when you see it …
