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2014-07-16 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Year Four: The Arab Spring Proved Everyone Wrong

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 They're not really countries, Mr Totten. And what they're doing is going to hell.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-16 02:00|| 2014-07-16 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 This, from Frontpage Magazine, seems to expand on yuor statement, g(r)omgoru.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-16 06:52|| 2014-07-16 06:52|| Front Page Top

#3 The problem with nationality vs tribalism in the middle east is that the root allegiance in the area is tribal, but western legalism only recognizes lines painted on the map. Which isn't even their map, it was drawn to accommodate commercial interests; it's curiously the same problem we're having on our southern border, in reverse.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-16 07:33|| 2014-07-16 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The definitive book on the subject is "The Arab Mind", TW.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-07-16 08:15|| 2014-07-16 08:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I have the older version of that book that I picked up in Singapore before beginning my travels in that corner of the world. An excellent read.

Posted by Pappy 2014-07-16 11:30|| 2014-07-16 11:30|| Front Page Top

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