Middle East Stability
We need to redefine “instability”, at least in the context of the Middle East.
If there’s sectarian violence and murder done on a daily basis, how does it make sense to call it instability when it happens again the next day? Seems pretty much like the status quo. We’d like to think that if we in the West just try hard enough, we’ll make the region stable but we’ve missed something - it is stable, insofar as the same thing happens over and over again on a daily basis.
Muslim hatred of Jews and Christians and anybody else not Muslim isn’t new. Neither is Muslim violence new, whether directed inward or outward. How much more stable can you get? Therefore, I declare the Middle East stable.
Now we have to decide if we’re willing to live with it.
NBEHTM wrote:
I think we’re not willing to live with it; at least I’m not. This view is too a small part untrue. They’re not keeping to themselves, 911 proved it; also the manipulation of the media & world opinion all play into my view that they are not keeping to themselves. Question is, how to we solve it? Though Bush had a good idea, & had good circumstances he botched it up so badly I question if much can be done to combat this. At least until more drastic things come for those cultures incompatible with the Middle East. :(.
Posted on 18-Dec-06 at 1:06 am | Permalink