“Some experts even say that we are seeing the emergence of a single big conflict that could be part of a generation-long devolution, which could end up toppling regimes and redrawing the national borders that were established after World War I,” writes Brooks. The forces ripping people into polarized groups seem stronger than the forces bringing them together. …It is pretty clear that the recent American strategy of light-footprint withdrawal and nation-building at home has not helped matters. The United States could have left more troops in Iraq and tamped down violence there. We could have intervened in Syria back when there was still something to be done and some reasonable opposition to mold. “It has become clear over the last year that the upheavals in the Islamic and Arab world have become a clash within a civilization rather than a clash between civilizations,” Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote recently. “The Sunni versus Alawite civil war in Syria is increasingly interacting with the Sunni versus Shiite tensions in the Gulf that are edging Iraq back toward civil war. They also interact with the Sunni-Shiite, Maronite and other confessional struggles in Lebanon.” - See more at: demdigest.net/blog/2013/08/a-clash-within-a-civilization-from-arab-spring-to-a-great-big-sectarian-war/#sthash.Bam0sTRQ.dpuf
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 20:06:04 +0000
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