The Middle Of Nowhere
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Prospect', 'W')estern analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east. But despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it
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Book: "The Middle of Nowhere" by Edward Luttwak
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Book: "The Middle of Nowhere" by Edward Luttwak
by Carlhole » Sat 19 May 2007, 15:07:36
This piece by a prominent military strategist seems like a disingenuous comment to me. No mention of China's relentless and aggressive search for oil worldwide, even into Latin America and Canada.
The Anglo-American powers must view the ME with a most urgent geo-strategic calculus.
- Carlhole
Re: "The Middle Of Nowhere" - Edward Luttwak
by Mircea » Sun 20 May 2007, 00:13:52
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')url=http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=9302]The Middle Of Nowhere[/url]
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Prospect', 'W')estern analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east. But despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Prospect', 'W')estern analysts are forever bleating about the strategic importance of the middle east. But despite its oil, this backward region is less relevant than ever, and it would be better for everyone if the rest of the world learned to ignore it
This piece by a prominent military strategist seems like a disingenuous comment to me. No mention of China's relentless and aggressive search for oil worldwide, even into Latin America and Canada.
The Anglo-American powers must view the ME with a most urgent geo-strategic calculus.
The fact that Americans are weak, totally lacking in self-discipline and resolve, and have built their fat miserable pathetic lives around a combustion engine is neither a reason to be in the Middle East killing people nor to concern themselves with China's "relentless and aggressive search for oil worldwide."
Anglo-Americans have no special rights, no special priviledges and are entitled to exactly nothing. They're simply nobodies on an orb with several billion other nobodies sailing through space around an insignificant star.
The sooner they realize that, the sooner they can start cooperating and sharing with others and they can prove they are the "superior race" by exhibiting some leadership that doesn't involve invading countries, assassinating heads-of-state, or murdering and enslaving others so they can have cheap oil, drink cheap coffee at Starbucks or eat cheap bananas.
Trust me, you'll still make it to heaven even if you don't have a fancy cell-phone, or a Rolex, or a Maserati, and aren't wearing Calvin Klein undies, and Jesus will forgive you all if you fail in your quest to consume every natural resource on the planet before anyone else even gets a chance to see what a natural resource looks like.
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