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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
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.
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It's not perfect, it's a theory, and a damn good one if you check out how things are shaping up in the world today. It's not perfect much like any theory, but if you treat it as such, you might learn something. The idea of learning things is to take what others say and not regurgitate it, but rather chew it for a while and form it into your own opinion.
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Samuel P. Huntington is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor. He graduated with distinction from Yale at age 18, served in the Army, and then received his Ph.D. from Harvard and started teaching there when he was 23. He has been a member of Harvard’s Department of Government since 1950 (except for a brief period between 1959 and 1962 when he was associate professor of government at Columbia University). He has served as chairman of the Government Department and of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies...
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http://www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/shuntington/
Clearly the man has no clue at all....