4/10/2003

OH NO, NOT HIM AGAIN?

War is Repeat Of Bernard Lewis Analysis
All of us who have read Mr. Lewis know that this war is more and more of the same. Superior Western technology and force wiping out the best that Mid East military can offer. This has been going on since the Brits kicked Napoleon out of Egypt. So again today the once supreme Arab military might has been reduced to rubble in record time. If you haven't read Mr. Lewis I suggest you hit Amazon and buy "The Middle East--A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years". The first chapter encapsulates the feelings of a modern Arab anywhere sitting in a coffee shop with nothing around him, including his clothing, of Mid East creation or origin. Everything he has, everything he uses, and everything he wants is Western. Once again this society that has created nothing since 1500 sees itself humiliated. Add to that the army that is winning has women in it. Women who are actually killing MEN.

Will this, at long last, cause change? That is the question. Right now nobody really knows. All the Usual Suspects have Opinions. But nobody knows.

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