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Archive for March 4th, 2008

The Million Dollar Question

Posted in Arabs, Islamism, Muslims, culture, nationalism, religion on 4 March, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The IHT seems to have finally caught on to something I have been saying for the past couple of years.
[. . .] Iraq runs counter to trends of rising religiousness among young people across much of the Middle East, where religion has replaced nationalism as a unifying ideology. While religious extremists are admired by a [...]

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"Some Things Just Won’t Change"

Posted in Grand Strategy, US, culture on 4 March, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A couple of months ago (and several times up til now) I registered my displeasure with the fact that the primary assumptions resulting in many of the failed policies of the Bush Administration (and indeed the previous one) were not being questioned in the primary presidential debates or even in the major forums for debate [...]

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