It's a staggering aesthetic and intellectual cat's-cradle of lines that connect the various actors in this artistic drama across a span that moves from Russia across various European capitals to the U.S., while also describing the intensity of their networks.
But beyond simply pursuing al-Qaeda cells in other countries, such as Somalia or Yemen, he will also need to sort out this cat's cradle of failed engagement inthe Middle East.
Most are part of a cat's cradle of interconnecting cracks, which redistribute the energy that builds up in a plate as it is squeezed by its neighbours.