Being There

Today, the con­flict between rad­i­cal Islam and reform leaped from the implicit to the internecine and all too real. Kaplan con­tin­ues:
…the issue of “fun­da­men­tal­ism” in Iran, and the West’s pre­oc­cu­pa­tion with it, was about to be over­taken by larger shifts in the political-historical land­scape that few could yet fathom.
It took twelve years for Kaplan’s pre­dic­tion to come true.