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Countrymen,
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Update 16JAN17
Something is afoot in MENA, a new alignment is forming,
comprising Israel, Saud, Egypt and Jordan,
that I can see so far.
Not sure how it builds out,
but I think the Muslim Brotherhood and
Salafism in general are going to be overtaken by
a perfect storm,
even in Saud, where Salafism started.
Question: There will be a generation of Iraqi leaders before universal education in Iraq stands up a stable leadership cadre. Who now is a legitimate leader?
Answer: I do not see an Iraqi George Washington. Certainly there is one and GEN Abizaid may know of him or her. I just do not see them at this point. Leadership selection is on Washington (CENTCOM, Pentagon, State, CIA …) and nations they bring in until that person(s) emerges, if they ever do. The Coalition Provisional Authority has established a revolving leadership (Iraqi Governing Council) rather than a single one.
Short term, leadership will come from the hubbub and long term it will come from education. Who is in the hubbub? Maybe GEN Abizaid sees someone we do not. He has been spending time there and is of course in the best position to know who to trust. He is a Godsend, a gift of Providence. I trust his judgment.
It Will not be muslim clergy because all of Washington — well, maybe not all — is aware that muslim clergy would take Iraq into another islamist state, either Shiite or Wahhabi, and that would mean we would have to pay twice for the same real estate.
The 30 June date may be like the 38th Parallel in Korea and the DMZ in Vietnam, ink on paper. But then I am not close enough to really have an accurate assessment of its feasibility. I anticipate that any governing structure in place in Iraq beyond that date will remain under American veto. This will of course call Sistani’s bet.
Large picture: the European/American nations are realizing that with a few exceptions, notably India and Pakistan, which are blessed with their own primal cultural structures, colonialism ended mostly with exploitation rather than nation building and that therefore its ending was unwise and badly done, especially in the Middle East and Africa. Incipient chaos was left behind, especially by France and Belgium, not a commendable legacy. Targeted nation building, especially of the Middle East and Africa (to include Haiti), is now indicated, to last for many decades, so that an exit strategy can be accomplished which leaves behind self-sustaining, free nations, through education, tree planting, public park building and clean water and sewage providing. Self-sustaining and free are synonyms where nations and individuals are concerned.
The colonial legacy of Great Britain is the best, with respect to nation building, and that of France and Belgium is the worst. Colonial powers using common law at home did better at nation building — and likely will do better now — than did colonial powers using civil law at home.
We continue to pay for premature, non-nation building exits from colonial rule. And even more so do the indigenous. So the Euro/American nations are going back to make good their exits by building nations, engineering allies who are self-confident, strong and happy because they are self-reliant and therefore free. That means education, planting trees, building public parks and ensuring sustained clean water and sewage for all localities.
A Military Academy is the first educational priority for every nation and West Point is the peerless and universal model. USMA staff are laying the foundations of an Afghan Military Academy. Products of some Military Academy must stand guard while nations that are building educate their long-term builders.
The security of the world depends on educating the humanity, “raising all the boats.” None can be left out, as recent experience attests. Technology is a two-edged sword. If it is not kept to helpful uses, through universal education, it will go to harmful ones. Education alone develops the modes of earning peace. It does this by refining tastes (softening the heart) and imparting skills (training the hands).
Education alone enables a society to keep its bad guys — and all societies have them — in the developmental stage of criminals, where they can be dealt with relatively cheaply, and prevent them from progressing to the level of warriors, where it is costly to destroy them because the whole society must pivot to meet them.
The only sustainable and therefore actual answer to the question of leadership, anywhere really, is the long-term one that emerges by engineering and also by serendipity from universal education, tree planting, public park building and clean water and sewage providing.
Update 1: Bruce Thornton: The Truth About Colonialism.
Update 2: CENTCOM politicizing intel?
Update 3: Some Anti-Colonial Globalists (note the oxymoron) have figured out a new map of the Middle East.
Update 4: Spengler: Balance Of Power – The Board Game
Update 5: BINGO!: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman visits Israel for secret state strategic — Arab cooperation with Israel — discussions.
Update 6: Thierry Meyssan: Which target after Syria?
Update 7: Laurent Murawiec: Taking Saudi Out Of Arabia
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