[rmlew]

I almost forgot Samuel P Huntington served in the Carter administration. He was a liberal who never adapted to the increasingly left wing political and academic culture.

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order was one of the best books on international affairs. Although I may disagree with his oversimplification of Japan and Israel, his general points remain.

Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity deserves at least as much attention.

It took many of us until 9/11 to realize the truth of what Huntington wrote in his 1993 Foreign Affairs article, "The Clash of Civilizations?".

In Eurasia the great historic fault lines between civilizations are once more aflame. This is particularly true along the boundaries of the crescent-shaped Islamic bloc of nations, from the bulge of Africa to central Asia. Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines. Islam has bloody borders.

And how many supposed conservatives would be as forthright as to speak on culture the way the liberal Huntington did?

Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community. Who Are We? America's Great Debate,

[combat_boots]

Huntington’s views replaced the kindly, fatherly, Greek-studying-the-Barbarian understanding of Bernard Lewis. Lewis’ work was seminal in its day.

http://www.princeton.edu/~nes/faculty_lewis.html

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/4124.html

I guess future work will be written by the other side. Ibn Khaldun would be proud.

[Enchante]

I haven't followed too much of Huntington's work but I think he was a JFK/Scoop Jackson kind of Democrat who was somewhat liberal but believed in a strong defense and a strong US stance in the world?

Just the fact that the excecrable Edward Said whined about SH makes me think there was something right about the "clash of civilizations" thesis. Leftists always whine about "simplistic" etc. when anyone shows clearly how great the dangers facing us might be, whether from communist-scum or Islamo-scum or other leftist-scum.....

"Despite criticism his thesis was simplistic or in the words of Middle East scholar Edward Said promoted the idea of "West versus the rest....""

Considering that Said spent most of his life promoting "the rest vs. the West" it is amusing that he was critical of SH on this point, but it is a reminder that leftists like Said are continually working to undermine our resolve to defend ourselves.

[Clemenza]

Son of Astoria, Queens, like Chris Walken, Tony Bennett, and Patrick McGoohan.

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

At roughly the same time as The Clash of Civilizations was published, Francis Fukujama's The End of History also came out. For a few years the optimistic Fukujama's prediction of a future universally enlightened and democratic world competed with Huntington's much darker view. These days it is pretty clear that Huntington was basically right.

[SunkenCiv]

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	Gods Graves Glyphs	I have a feeling this topic will be a troll magnet, so no ping, just adding to the catalog as a "Pages" topic. Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book "The Clash of Civilizations" predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday. Huntington, who taught for 58 years at Harvard before retiring in 2007, died Wednesday at a nursing facility in Martha's Vineyard... In his 1996 "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order," which expanded on his 1993 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Huntington divided the world into rival civilizations based mainly on religious traditions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Confucianism and said competition and conflict among them was inevitable. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list. GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother, and Ernest_at_the_Beach
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington

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[rmlew]

I think I had the first post on Huntington’s passing. I was a little freaky for me, since I had spend Christmas day reading “Who Are We?”.