David brooks articles about the middle east12/30/2023 Bush called it "regime change," which simply ignored the underlying problem. ![]() We are fortunate that Czechoslovakia split peaceably in 1990. Iraq is likely to break up much like India did in 1947, Yugoslavia did in 1990 and probably as Ukraine will do. This long shadow gave rise to World War II as well as other, more recent conflicts throughout the Middle East and other areas of the world. In a new book titled The Long Shadow, David Reynolds discusses the long shadow cast over the area during World War I and how it is the root of many of today's problems. The Sunni and Kurd minorities will simply not acquiesce to a Shiite majority. These former superpowers, in their desire to maintain their colonial status and access to Middle East oil, foolishly placed these warring entities together, either expecting their ethnic and religious differences to evaporate - which they obviously have not - or else they simply did not care. Their current union comes forcibly from Britain and France's act of ignorance after winning World War I. ![]() ![]() The Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds have been fighting for over a century. ISIS takes last major city in northern IraqJune 17 It happens after more than 20 years of willful blindness to the ideology of our enemies, and more than 20 years without a strategic vision of the global jihadist challenge." That's what burns me. Andrew McCarthy put it clearly this month in National Review: "That kind of insanity (our foreign policy) does not happen overnight.
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