Registration Now Required For Comments

As part of some kind of system upgrade, readers will soon have to register themselves in order to comment on the Middle East blog. You'll only have to do this once, and it will help screen out all those spam comments for Nigerian banking schemes that are filling the site and gumming up the works.

We apologize for the inconvenience, but hopefully this will help foster a better forum for all of us.

Thanks, Andrew, Scott, Tim