There's a real sense in which, more than any other part of the former colonial world, the Middle East has never been fully decolonised. Sitting on top of the bulk of the globe's oil reserves, the Arab world has been the target of continual interference and intervention ever since it became formally independent.
Jeg oppsummerer de 7 lærdommene, men anbefaler dere å lese hele artikkelen selv.
Det er en fantastisk oppsummering av vestens innblandinger i midtøsten over de siste 50-60 årene. Dette er selvfølgelig ikke den versjonen av historien de vil du skal lære - dette er noe enda bedre - det er sannheten.
1. The west never gives up its drive to control the Middle East, whatever the setbacks
2. Imperial powers can usually be relied on to delude themselves about what Arabs actually think
3. The Big Powers are old hands at prettifying client regimes to keep the oil flowing
4. People in the Middle East don't forget their history – even when the US and Europe does
5. The west has always presented Arabs who insist on running their own affairs as fanatics
6. Foreign military intervention in the Middle East brings death, destruction and divide and rule
7. Western sponsorship of Palestine's colonisation is a permanent block on normal relations with the Arab world
Problemene i midtøsten er selvfølgelig ikke bare vestens feil, men vi har jaggu ikke gjort situasjonen noe lettere for dem over årene.
For mer revisjonist-historie om midt-østen hør Lew Rockwells podcast med Scott Horton fra Antiwar.com
Like Rome, England, and other empires, the US divides to rule. In Arab countries, the subjects of the latest conquests, this is done geographically and tribally. The US establishes "freedom and democracy," that is, mass killing, puppet tyrannies, and control of the oil. Some human beings like to murder and torture. Serial killers, we call them in the private sector. Mr. President, Madam Secretary, General, Mr. Director, we call them in the government.
195. American Domination as ‘Freedom and Democracy’
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