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To and Fro in the Middle East

August 30, 2010 - 1:49 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Josh
2010-08-30 18:46:55

Perhaps nothing is ever “over” in the Middle East.

Home of the Hudna! ™

md @ 8: The Arab psyche provides a blood chilling projection of/for the future. This is clearly a post-nuclear bombing scenario.

It’s a desert survival mindset, where you always have more population than resources, where you can fight an enemy and then run away and not see him again for a generation, where real information is vanishingly scarce, where it might be a survival trait to kill your neighbor and steal his ass.

Tie a ribbon on that with the story of the Islamic conquest, and here we are. Until we have a counter-meme of comparable magnitude.