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| The Map Comes To Life |
| 2015-09-14 |
| At intervals in history the map redraws itself. This may be one of those times. The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded that Iraq and Syria are breaking up and the process is irreversible. The Associated Press [1] reports: Iraq and Syria may have been permanently torn asunder by war and sectarian tensions, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday in a frank assessment that is at odds with Obama administration policy. "I'm having a tough time seeing it come back together," Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart told an industry conference, speaking of Iraq and Syria, both of which have seen large chunks territory seized by the Islamic State. ... Iraqis and Syrians now more often identify themselves by tribe or religious sect, rather than by their nationality, he said. "I think the Middle East is going to be seeing change over the coming decade or two that is going to make it look unlike it did," [CIA's] Brennan said. And a good thing to Brennan and Stewart forgot to add Libya [2] and Yemen [3] to his list. They have already disintegrated. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard [4] needlessly observes that countries invented by European diplomats Sykes and Picot [5] have largely ceased to exist. Now Evans-Pritchard wonders whether that other boundary drawn up by European diplomatic treaties -- the European Union -- is now entering a similar period of revision. ...The Left, like radical Islam, must either rule or live apart. The failure of Islam to conquer and the abortive end of socialism's one world under political correctness policy means leaders like Corbyn and Sanders now represent the forces of fragmentation rather than unity. If they cannot rule in heaven they will rule where they can. Europe was challenged by Islam and Russia with a problem it could not solve on its own terms. The world, after a long period of coming together under a single hegemon, the United States, is diverging again. The fences are going up all over Europe, we shall not see them torn down again in our life-time. No truce with kings |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2015-09-14 15:56 |
| #1 Coming alive like fly-blown meat. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-09-14 09:25 |