Quote:
Originally Posted by FireFly
Well here's the thing... the US knew they had WMDs because they sold them to Iraq. So where are they? Who did Iraq give them to? And why? Obviously they had to get rid of them, but who did they pick to receive them?
For anyone interested, there's an amazing book called "The Clash of Civilizations..." by Samuel P. Huntington in which he talks about how, since the Cold War is over and the ideology battle won, there are new 'lines' drawn in the sand. I disagree with him on some points, namely that he doesn't think the Jewish civilization is large enough to be counted as a civilization, but it's a pretty good read.
|
Amazing book?
Bwaahahaha.
I'm sorry, but that may be the most non-academic, anecdotal, ignorant piece ever published in foreign affairs.
The idea of their being cogent 'civilizations' that will do battle now that the soviet union is gone is laughable. To even think they exist is to completely ignore the complexity of a geographic area.
It's like something Thomas L. Friedman would write.