Posted by
Richard on Monday, October 02, 2006 9:43:17 AM
One Last Thing | Post-9/11 conflicts rooted in history
By Jonathan Last
Philadelphia Inquirer
October 01, 2006
"Are we, or are we not, engaged in a larger clash of civilizations? ...If the answer is "We are," the clash long predates 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and George W. Bush. It predates America itself. It is a clash between Western civilization and the Islamic world." read more
This is what many of us have been saying for quite a long time. This is not about, a war on terror, althought that is certainly one part of a greater whole. It is about a war of two civilizations. One that has throught time, trial and error, advances in modern thought, science and reasoning has brought about the things we see in the twenty first century today. The other is mired in the thinking of centuries of past wrongs, and a past that has kept it in a quagmire of poverty, resentment and hatedred.