There are many more related facets to our current times that makes them so "interesting", but you can't cover it all at once. One bite at a time.
Oh, and second, gave me the courage to end the charade. And may the chips fall where they may...
Good analysis.
It’s certainly interesting that ISIS is so public.
And look at who’s in charge of the CIA. A muslim who answers to a muslim.
Isis? Putin? China? Islam?
Not really sure which will be around to feast over the bones. I don’t know how much of a direct threat I now consider any of them, at this point. It looks more likely America will be dying by its own hand. From its own moral, economic, and cultural bankrupcy.
All the big economies of the world are a house of cards. A world wide crash is inevitable. With such a crash are the inevitable power vacuums that will be filled by strongman despots. Good analysis.
From a military point of view the invasion of Iraq was a viable strategy. By displacing the largest Army in the region we were well positioned to allow real democratic reform to occur in the region at a minimal cost. Not only could we have suppressed the rise of ISIS but we could have acted in Syria and Libya.
Much in the same way we nurtured democratic reforms in Germany and Japan the same could have occurred in Iraq and by consequence in other countries in the Middle-East.
Some may argue that doing nothing would have been better however doing nothing and allowing the rise of Islamic militants in the 90’s resulted in 9/11...
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Thanks, Leaf..very good think piece.
My wife is Chinese. She said there is no such curse in Chinese culture — nor is there anything even approximating it — that she is aware of.