
Another cae of "divide and conquer", as...
discussed by Noam Chomsky [link|http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Chomsky/ChomOdon_Divide.html|here].
I get a chuckle out of the following:
It was by Angelo Codevilla, a so-called scholar at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, who says: Look, the problem in the world is that Western intellectuals hate their culture and therefore they terminated colonialism. Only civilizations of great generosity can undertake tasks as noble as colonialism, which tries to rescue barbarians all over the world from their miserable fate. The Europeans did it-and of course gave them enormous gifts and benefits. But then these Western intellectuals who hate their own cultures forced them to withdraw. The result is what you now see.
My emphasis.
That was about Somalia in 1993. Now, think 10 years later and Iraq.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell