http://newbooksinnationalsecurity.com/2015/02/12/christian-c-sahner-among-the-ruins-syria-past-and-present-oxford-university-press-2014/
I really used to think that if an event was striking enough that it might compel analysts to dwell with/in the phenomena and not to change the subject/scene by rushing to abstractions or formulas or such, but alas…