Yesterday we drove up to the Golan Heights and from the top of a mountain were able to see into Syria, and over my left shoulder was the corner of Lebanon. One of the UNDOF representatives answered all of our questions about the role of the UN in maintaining a treaty, what it means to have borders, and how everything has changed since the Syrian Civil War, since the treaty does not apply to nongovernmental groups. I think a lot about the Middle East and fractured states, and