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On Wednesday, October 19, New York Times reporter Scott Anderson, author of the landmark Times story Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart, (http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/11/magazine/isis-middle-east-arab-spring-fractured-lands.html)…