i dare you to try and understand this

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December 4, 2016 at 9:21 am #60147

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Ok, I DARE you to read this short article. My head started swimming about three paragraphs into it. Its no use. There is no way average-Americans are ever gonna understand the intricacies of the middle-east.

Kurds:http://www.voltairenet.org/article194302.html

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December 4, 2016 at 9:34 am #60148

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Well not everything is for the average reader. If it were that would severely limit the range of discussion. Some stuff is for people already conversant with a field, so they can sharpen their sense of things. Then, some of those write for mainstream consumption.

It seems to me what would help reading that would be some knowledge of post-colonial history. Just the idea of it. For example, the crucial idea that post-colonial african and middle-eastern nations are not “organic” — they arose from some foreign power drawing lines on a map. Then leaving, and saying okay you’re a country now. That right there alone is one of the single most significant factors in 20th and 21st century history and drives more of our world experience than virtually any other political factor.

If you persist with that article it’s not so bad btw.

December 4, 2016 at 9:50 am #60151

wv
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Yes, i agree with all that. But jeezus.

Thot this was good:
“…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”

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December 4, 2016 at 10:11 am #60156

bnw
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Israel wants to export Golan Heights oil via pipeline through Syria. Assad said no. Voila! War.

The upside to being a Rams fan is heartbreak.

Sprinkles are for winners.

December 4, 2016 at 10:20 am #60157

zn
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wv wrote:

“…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”

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I will say this. Just in terms of the prose, that’s English as a second language in a time when there are no editors.

December 4, 2016 at 11:02 am #60178

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

“…At the time, everyone noticed the attempt to weaken Syria, but no-one understood the under-lying motivation for this transfer of the population. And yet a close colleague of ambassador Samantha Powell, Kelly M. Greenhill, had published a university article on Strategic engineering of migration as a weapon of war [1], which should have caught the attention.”

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I will say this. Just in terms of the prose, that’s English as a second language in a time when there are no editors.

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Yes. Much like Mike Martz, or Donald Rumsfeld.

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December 4, 2016 at 11:29 am #60184

Agamemnon
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zn wrote:

Well not everything is for the average reader. If it were that would severely limit the range of discussion. Some stuff is for people already conversant with a field, so they can sharpen their sense of things. Then, some of those write for mainstream consumption.

It seems to me what would help reading that would be some knowledge of post-colonial history. Just the idea of it. For example, the crucial idea that post-colonial african and middle-eastern nations are not “organic” — they arose from some foreign power drawing lines on a map. Then leaving, and saying okay you’re a country now. That right there alone is one of the single most significant factors in 20th and 21st century history and drives more of our world experience than virtually any other political factor.

If you persist with that article it’s not so bad btw.

Find something about the history of the Belgium Condo. What the Belgium Kind did in the Belgium Congo and how he got it and how he lost it.

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December 4, 2016 at 12:35 pm #60203

Agamemnon
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King Leopold II of Belgium and the 10 Million Deaths of the Congolese

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