Reply #44: You know, I think we here in the west don't understand these people [View All]

at all. It seems to me, what we think of as nations by and large are actually groups of loosely affiliated people very different ethnically from each other. If given the even a little opportunity, by a weak government, the whole thing crumbles into much smaller states of common ethnic background.

Like the British in the middle east to India, when they got there it was small kingdoms held by a Prince with hardly any allegiance to anyone else. The British turned each of these areas into larger nations to administer better, but the people by and large remained the same with a very closed allegiance.

The map of the middle east could be changing very rapidly in the near future. I doubt it will change to the west's liking either, or the corporations controlling the resources. It is far easier for corporations to deal with nations. They won't come out of this well.

I wonder if PNAC considered this when they kicked the hornets nest. Probably not, Strauss wasn't that smart actually.