Wednesday, February 7, 2007
"Spengler" at Asia Times writes:
Isn't that what they said in 1914?
Anyway:
That "except for oil" business is really the rub, isn't it? Why do countries like China protect Sudan? Why does Russia protect Iran? Money from oil.
The present conflict in the Middle East is not between Arab and Jew, but between Arabs and Jews who seek their way in the modern world on the one hand, and Arabs and Persians who reject the modern world on the other...
On that he's got something.
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I agree with Spengler's analysis, regardless whatever Israel does or does not do, it will have little or no bearing on the divisive issues within the Muslim/Arab world.
The ME is the lone region of the world that (with the exception of the state of Israel) that has yet to experience an industrial revolution. If Turkey was once called the "sick man of Europe", the ME can then be called the "sick man of the world".
Oh THAT Spengler.
I thought it was Egon Spengler Ph. D. from the Ghostbusters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Spengler