Forward to the Past- Moslem progress

Posted By Uncle Jimbo

The Moslem world sprawls around half the east, from the Pacific across Asia and Africa to the Atlantic, along one of the greatest of trade routes; in its center is an area extremely rich in oil; over it will run some of the most strategically important air routes.

With few exceptions, the states which it includes are marked by poverty, ignorance, and stagnation. It is full of discontent and frustration, yet alive with consciousness of its inferiority and with determination to achieve some kind of general betterment.

Two basic urges meet head-on in this area, and conflict is inherent in this collision of interests. These urges reveal themselves in daily news accounts of killings and terrorism, of pressure groups in opposition, and of raw nationalism and naked expansionism masquerading as diplomatic maneuvers. The urges tie together the tangled threads of power politics which—snarled in the lap of the United Nations Assembly—lead back to the centers of Islamic pressure and to the capitals of the world’s biggest nations.

Riddle me this Batman, when was the preceding bit written, this morning? Try 1946 in an analysis piece by the War Department asking its best intelligence minds what threats they saw in a post-WWII world. Do both of us a favor and read the entire thing. They didn’t just get it right; they drew a path that we have since wandered down for 60 years. The stage for our current impasse was set by the downward spiral of Moslem culture and the awful job done when the Europeans dismantled their colonial empires. It is almost painful to read this document as it presciently documents our current troubles, and yet somehow has been ignored or overruled by the Arabist wing of our diplomatic corps.

Lengthy excerpts and, whatever the opposite of Fisking is, commentary back in Uncle J land.

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Forward to the Past- Moslem progress

The Moslem world sprawls around half the east, from the Pacific across Asia and Africa to the Atlantic, along one of the greatest of trade routes; in its center is an area extremely rich in oil; over it will run some of the most strategically important air routes.

With few exceptions, the states which it includes are marked by poverty, ignorance, and stagnation. It is full of discontent and frustration, yet alive with consciousness of its inferiority and with determination to achieve some kind of general betterment.

Two basic urges meet head-on in this area, and conflict is inherent in this collision of interests. These urges reveal themselves in daily news accounts of killings and terrorism, of pressure groups in opposition, and of raw nationalism and naked expansionism masquerading as diplomatic maneuvers. The urges tie together the tangled threads of power politics which—snarled in the lap of the United Nations Assembly—lead back to the centers of Islamic pressure and to the capitals of the world’s biggest nations.

Riddle me this Batman, when was the preceding bit written, this morning? Try 1946 in an analysis piece by the War Department asking its best intelligence minds what threats they saw in a post-WWII world. Do both of us a favor and read the entire thing. They didn’t just get it right; they drew a path that we have since wandered down for 60 years. The stage for our current impasse was set by the downward spiral of Moslem culture and the awful job done when the Europeans dismantled their colonial empires. It is almost painful to read this document as it presciently documents our current troubles, and yet somehow has been ignored or overruled by the Arabist wing of our diplomatic corps.

Lengthy excerpts and, whatever the opposite of Fisking is, commentary back in Uncle J land.

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