Our Middle East Muddling 2.0

 I've written about the Middle East on a few occasions.

There is a monumental lack of understanding on the
part of the West as we clutch retentively to our deep
seated self image.

1. Understand this globally:

China sees the world from a
mountaintop 6.000 years high.

The Middle East sees the world from a
mountaintop 4.000 years high.

Europe sees the world from a
Mountaintop 2.000 years high.

The US sees the world from a
mountaintop 245 years high.

2. We are not fighting an army of
one million soldiers. We are fighting
one million armies of one soldier each.

3. We embrace the delusion that the
people we demonise are rejected in their
own lands. And some do reject them.
However, others embrace them.

4. I once thought that other people
did not want American Style Government, they
only wanted American style freedom. I was
wrong. They see how too often, freedom
for one means freedom for the other. And
freedom for the other impinges on their own freedom.

5. Other peoples have cohesion
The EU is fractious, but that among nations
We are fractious among ourselves
That is not a sustainable model

6. The many may oppress the few. But the few may
not oppress the many--not for very long anyway.

7. It happens because no one believes it can
happen. Until it does.

8. "Everybody knows what everybody knows."
Quotations of Slim Fairview


9. They are not afraid to fight for their survival
& make no apologies. Again, they have cohesion.

10. "Abundance is the mother of complacency."
Slim Fairview.

11. In our country, the Generals serve at the
pleasure of the President. In many other
countries, it is the President who serves at the
pleasure of the Generals.

Caveat:
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush
Didn't actually get it wrong. Everyone in the
West gets it wrong

Simplistic to say,
"Generals should advise Presidents on
fighting wars because it is The People
who need to understand this."

You can rest assured, whoever is President, 

The Middle East Isn't Going to change.

Sincerest regards,

Slim.

You Can't Fool the Lion:

The Quotations of Slim Fairview

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