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2014-06-14 Iraq

In the Middle East, the End of the Beginning

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Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-06-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Finally, somebody who understands.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-06-14 05:14|| 2014-06-14 05:14|| Front Page Top

#2 "...in the minds of the British Foreign Office, which carved it and other equally imaginary countries out of the rump of the Ottoman Empire after the First World War."

Political "Old School" said define your conquered enemies into ideologically-separated and easily-defeated strata (sound familiar?). As organized western religions were well past the Crusades, few, if any, political minds recognized the umbra of Islam as a supra-uniting ideology.

Muhammad seemed like "small ball" at the time, I'm sure.

Western democracies shall have to find the will to resist or shall die.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-06-14 10:02|| 2014-06-14 10:02|| Front Page Top

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