World War III - Another brilliant piece on international
affairs from Roger Cohen:
Roger Cohen’s classic op-ed on the Middle East can be found
here:
The Turkey-Russia Fracas – Hypocrisy from all sides:
Turkey’s Duplicitous Policies:
A highly informative read on the Syrian mess: The
Rubble-Strewn Road to Damascus BY ROBIN WRIGHT
“Can anything be done to save Syria from itself?
Modern Syria has always been a fractious place. After independence from France,
following the Second World War, the country went through twenty coups in
twenty-one years—some successful, some not—until Hafez al-Assad, a former Air
Force general, seized power, in 1970. He was initially embraced, at home and
abroad....
Can a population so divided ever forge a stable
political system that doesn't entail a dictatorship?”
Saudi Arabia’s Role in the Rise of ISIS
“The West’s denial regarding Saudi Arabia is striking:
It salutes the theocracy as its ally but pretends not to notice that it is the
world’s chief ideological sponsor of Islamist culture. The younger generations
of radicals in the so-called Arab world were not born jihadists. They were
suckled in the bosom of Fatwa Valley, a kind of Islamist Vatican with a vast
industry that produces theologians, religious laws, books, and aggressive
editorial policies and media campaigns.”
Wahhabism and Extremismhttp://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2015/11/spread-wahhabism-and-west-s-responsibility-world