Jordan - some good news for a change!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-nicholson/jordan-the-friendly-bouti_b_2716902.html Jordan Becomes An Oasis In The Middle East Posted: 02/22/2013 7:30 am When most people think about the Middle East, they often think of vast uninhabited deserts dotted with oil and gas equipment, polluted cities, dusty villages, and herds of sheep and camels milling about on rocky hillsides. Even less flattering connotations may include anti-Western hostility, riotous mobs and demonstrations, lawlessness, and near-constant political upheaval. While these descriptors may be partially accurate for some parts of the Middle East, such generalizations applied to the entire region belie the modernity, cleanliness, friendliness, and all around loveliness that is the small and frequently overlooked Kingdom of Jordan. Jordan sits in a rather unfortunate position, geographically and politically speaking. It lost the geologic lottery (i.e., oil and gas wealth) whose spoils nearly all of its neig...