A terrific post. The following quote is an insight I have never considered. Can you post a link? I'd like to read more from this source.
It is the belated recognition of the need to deal with the externality that Europe, in the process of decolonization, has dumped upon the rest of the world. The former colonies or protectorates have become vast factories of human misery, desperation and fanaticism which someone now has to clean up. The proposals of Perle and Frum, so implausible on their face, are really more believable than the idea, gospel for nearly half a century, that a vast wave of misery could be unleashed indefinitely without affecting the rest of the world.
Why the Islamists have ignored the fact that it was the Europeans including, sadly, the Brits, who left them to despair and poverty and have instead focused on the US as the Belzebub is a question I'd like to see answered. After all, their ideologists, half-baked though they are, do seem to have a long sense of history.
Ironically, decolonization was all done mostly for good reasons. Now, however, I think it would be difficult to argue that the Fetid Impoverished East is better off materially or politically than it was while it was colonized.
Interesting and ironic, huh? The Europeans' good intentions have come back to haunt us. What did we do to deserve this kind of treatment? |
