Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global, September 2, 2009
There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. public is prepared. They seem scarcely aware how close it is on the horizon or how ferocious it will be. The U.S. government (and therefore almost inevitably the U.S. public) is deluding itself massively about its capacity to handle the situation in terms of its stated objectives. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, and in the classic expression “it will spread like wildfire.”
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The Firestorm Ahead
Immanuel Wallerstein, Agence Global, September 2, 2009
There is a firestorm ahead in the Middle East for which neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. public is prepared. They seem scarcely aware how close it is on the horizon or how ferocious it will be. The U.S. government (and therefore almost inevitably the U.S. public) is deluding itself massively about its capacity to handle the situation in terms of its stated objectives. The storm will go from Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan to Israel/Palestine, and in the classic expression “it will spread like wildfire.”
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Tags: Afghanistan, Immanuel Wallerstein, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Middle East, NATO forces in Afghan war, Pakistan, PM Nouri al-Maliki, SOFA agreement, Taliban, United States
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