u.s. vetoes of un resolutions critical of israel, page-18

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(Or crashing a plane into a skyscraper. Surely Mao was just stating a truism).

If that analysis is close to the mark then either any hopes for peace in the ME and the hope of cessation of terrorist acts around the world are futile or it's ideas can be used as part of a basis to begin to deal with the issues.

If the problem fundamentally is envy of the superiority of the West in all those areas, then the removal of a modern Western state from Palestine will only shift, in time, the focus of that envy to the more geographically distant West.

To bring up the bogey of eugenics may be the way cultural relativists react to an unwelcome analysis but it will do nothing to better the lot of many ME Arabs.

The Arabs believe their culture and civilisation was in the past equal to or superior to those historical influences and building blocks of Western culture.

This article cuts that crutch out from under the Arabs and the Muslim World in general. It says to those cultures if you don't want your brightest and best to leave for the West then you need to look again at your analysis of history. The West's as well as your's