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Insightful--Hanson at his best.
Will the West Stumble?
By Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics
November 21, 2006
Out of all those ashes of failure and contradiction arose the Phoenix of Islamic fascism whose origins Western experts endlessly dissect. Who and what caused this foul apparition that has succeeded fascism, Nazism, and communism as the world's next bane?
Is the hatred and venom a feral shoot of Islam, or an import from the West during the dark times of the 1930s? Or is it a bastard of Soviet statism that infected the Middle East after the war?
Did globalization bring the reality of failure to the Arab street though cell phones and satellite television and with that realization a deadly response by dictators, who paid off terrorists to blame the West, not themselves, for the glaring disparities?
We now are arguing over the significance of schisms between Shiite and Sunni. Or is the real story the regional grievances of Hamas versus Hezbollah versus al Qaeda, or again the difference between the autocracies of an Assad, Saddam Hussein, or Iranian mullocracy? Like tiny wildfires can they be put out with buckets here and there, or are they simply embers of a global conflagration?
for full article:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson112106.html
Will the West Stumble?
By Victor Davis Hanson, Real Clear Politics
November 21, 2006
Out of all those ashes of failure and contradiction arose the Phoenix of Islamic fascism whose origins Western experts endlessly dissect. Who and what caused this foul apparition that has succeeded fascism, Nazism, and communism as the world's next bane?
Is the hatred and venom a feral shoot of Islam, or an import from the West during the dark times of the 1930s? Or is it a bastard of Soviet statism that infected the Middle East after the war?
Did globalization bring the reality of failure to the Arab street though cell phones and satellite television and with that realization a deadly response by dictators, who paid off terrorists to blame the West, not themselves, for the glaring disparities?
We now are arguing over the significance of schisms between Shiite and Sunni. Or is the real story the regional grievances of Hamas versus Hezbollah versus al Qaeda, or again the difference between the autocracies of an Assad, Saddam Hussein, or Iranian mullocracy? Like tiny wildfires can they be put out with buckets here and there, or are they simply embers of a global conflagration?
for full article:
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson112106.html
