Christopher Stevens Feeds the Crocodile

Front Page Magazine ^ | September 14, 2012 | Daniel Greenfield

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Thank you.

:)

[Squantos]

These fools still approach the “Cult of Rabidity” with kindness and bribes.....

The polidiots and their nut hugging staff deserves all the pain and anguish the islamakazies can deal. Sadly the collateral damage to good men and women can only be mitigated, never stopped in this administration.

Lord bless the USMC and the DSS security professionals who try to keep this circus of sh*t secure.

My opinion.

Stay safe SLB.

[kenavi]

1st Gingrich said we should set a no.fly zone, and he wasn’t alone on GOP side. Domestic.politics are.a.key component of.realpolitik. The only major politician who is consistently non intervention is Ron Paul.

[FreedomPoster]

OK

I’m not sure how you thought any of that was a considered, logical response to my comments, but OK.

[x]

However, whatever its problems, Europe ceased to be tribal in many areas with the spread of Christianity and in many others tribalism was already on the decline because of the advance of Roman concepts of citizenship and nation.

Two horrendous twentieth century wars suggest that Europe didn't quite cease to be in some sense "tribal" for some centuries after Rome, or if not literally "tribal" then not immune to some of the same enmities and violence acted out on a much greater scale than that of mere tribes.

Somebody posts Times stories from 70 years ago here each week. Reading about what was going on in Europe then might make us a little less smug about our own superiority.

You seem to be enamored of a "non-tribal West vs. tribal Arabs" model, but historically both civilizations combined tribal and non-tribal elements, or at least aggregative and disaggregative elements. To different degrees, to be sure, but it wasn't a black-white, all or nothing contrast between the two civiizations.

Also, you're talking about two different things. First, the ability of religions to produce a community of believers (organized against other communities with other beliefs), and second, the reorganization of society into nations, rather than tribes. The second process may have begun earlier and gone farther in the West, but the first occured in other cultures as well as our own.