RE: World war 3
September 13, 2014 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2014 at 2:44 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, the region was under ottoman rule until 1918. We haven't blasted any of it until after the war to end all wars.
It is arguable much of the mess there right now are traceable directly or indirectly to the various longer term consequences of the utter contempt we showed the Arab aspirations directly and sense of solidarity amongst Muslim indirectly, by installing Israel in its midst of the Arab and Islamic world in 1948 at a time of rising tide of nationalism and anti colonialism everywhere, the name of fixing a wrong in which the Arabs had almost no part, at least compared to us. It put the Arab world on the side against the west in the Cold War, hardened the antagonistic attitude between the Arab and Islamic world and the west, prompted the Arabs to believe their salvation must come from something other than westernization, and westernization could only ever lead to ever more through subjugation, and given the choice, they rather be subjugated by the artifacts of their own tradition than by those imposed by us for our benefit.
It is arguable much of the mess there right now are traceable directly or indirectly to the various longer term consequences of the utter contempt we showed the Arab aspirations directly and sense of solidarity amongst Muslim indirectly, by installing Israel in its midst of the Arab and Islamic world in 1948 at a time of rising tide of nationalism and anti colonialism everywhere, the name of fixing a wrong in which the Arabs had almost no part, at least compared to us. It put the Arab world on the side against the west in the Cold War, hardened the antagonistic attitude between the Arab and Islamic world and the west, prompted the Arabs to believe their salvation must come from something other than westernization, and westernization could only ever lead to ever more through subjugation, and given the choice, they rather be subjugated by the artifacts of their own tradition than by those imposed by us for our benefit.
