The Three Revolutions -Henry A. Kissinger
The declining role of the state in the Middle East is inherent in the way those states were founded. Unlike the European states, their borders did not reflect ethnic principles or linguistic distinctiveness but the balances between the European powers.
Radical Islam threatens the already brittle state structure in the region via a fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran as the basis of a universal political organization. Jihadist Islam rejects national sovereignty based on secular state models; it seeks to extend its reach to wherever significant populations profess the Muslim faith.
The U.S. does not have the option of withdrawal. We can retreat from any one place, such as Iraq, but only to be obliged to resist from new positions, probably more disadvantageously. Even advocates of unilateral withdrawal from Iraq speak of retaining residual forces to prevent a resurgence of al-Qaeda or radicalism.
[T]he Middle East does not fit the nation-state model and faces a religiously motivated revolution...
(Washington Post)
The declining role of the state in the Middle East is inherent in the way those states were founded. Unlike the European states, their borders did not reflect ethnic principles or linguistic distinctiveness but the balances between the European powers.
Radical Islam threatens the already brittle state structure in the region via a fundamentalist interpretation of the Koran as the basis of a universal political organization. Jihadist Islam rejects national sovereignty based on secular state models; it seeks to extend its reach to wherever significant populations profess the Muslim faith.
The U.S. does not have the option of withdrawal. We can retreat from any one place, such as Iraq, but only to be obliged to resist from new positions, probably more disadvantageously. Even advocates of unilateral withdrawal from Iraq speak of retaining residual forces to prevent a resurgence of al-Qaeda or radicalism.
[T]he Middle East does not fit the nation-state model and faces a religiously motivated revolution...
(Washington Post)
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