[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:45:50 -0800
People have written books about this. I just recommended Thomas Barnett's
The Pentagon's New Map and provided an interview. The "Non-Integrated Gap"
consisting of failed and rogue economies and states threaten the Integrated
Gap by their very nature. They are not organized. They are not consistent.
Barnett has proposed means to move them into the integrated gap. Security
needs to exist before investors will invest, etc etc. Read about it.
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On Behalf Of Paul Stone
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:30 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
At 12:21 AM 1/13/2007, you wrote:
If you want to play word games and blame the lack of a definitive coherent
Militant Islamic definition on us, that may make you feel good, but it won't
get you very close to understanding. We didn't make the Middle East up. It
is what it is. We are just playing catch up trying to understand it - some
of us and deal with that part of it that comprises a threat.
Some questions;
I) who does it comprise a threat to?
ii) what is the mechanism of that threat?
iii) what part of the "middle East" comprises this threat?
iv) what should we do about it?
v) what about the rest of the ME who DOESN'T comprise that threat?
p
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