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2005-01-06 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Peters TSUNAMI RIPPLES: A NEW STRATEGIC MAP

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Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-06 4:07:55 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I personally think South Africa is well on its way to becoming the new Zimbabwe of the continent, not the new super power. None of my female expat friends are willing to take an assignment there because of the high risk of rape, robbery and general mayhem. I only hope my cousins in Cape Town have moved off-continent.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-06 4:26:12 PM|| 2005-01-06 4:26:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 No nation or nations can fight a war(s) that haven't been fought yet - the best anyone can gen do is anticipate based on best evidence but remain flexible as against the unknown. The prob for Islam in the Indian Ocean is the same as for Islam in the rest of the world - Islam, like Communism, tyrannically maintains the status quo and is mostly inflexible to change or reform, espec when it comes to economics and domestic or socio-cultural materialism. A primary reason for the unrest in the Islamic world is that the average or ordinary Muslim is unable to care for himself or his own, nor is he allowed by the mullahs to engage in individualist iniatives whereby he materially improve his personal lot in life. Militarily conquering non-Muslim societies in the long term gives new resources to use and consume, but doesn't resolve his basic problem. The more developed and wealthy non-Muslim sectors in Indonesia want autonomy or independence, which the majority local Muslims fear because without the non-Muslim sectors they are gen just a bunch of uneducated, un-modern farmers and limited traders. Many Islamist militants are in reality fighting to keep their nation together in order to preserve Muslim political control over their non-Muslim donminated local and national economies! Its very similar in the ME, where modernity is generally for the oil-rich ruling few, the mullahs, and political-theocratic elites, not the ordinary masses -its easy to blame capitalism and America but in reality this situation had existed for many hundreds of years. Like the Leftists, Socialists, Marxists or Commies, men like Osama see the near-term looming self-implosion, self-oblivion, and self-irrelevance of Islam as a potent force for anything - THEIR VIOLENT RADICALISM IS AS MUCH TO SAVE ISLAM AS IT IS TO EMPOWER AND ENFORCE IT ON THE WORLD, AN ACT OF DESPERATION!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-01-06 9:33:16 PM|| [http://n/a] 2005-01-06 9:33:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 JM! You were Sooooooo close to a great lucid comment! damn!

Posted by Frank G 2005-01-06 10:37:23 PM|| 2005-01-06 10:37:23 PM|| Front Page Top

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