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Category Archives: Arab Spring
The Arab Spring & Remembrance Of Things Past
The remembrance of things past is dominated by Proust, but cultures like China and its Confucian heritage along with Arabia and most of Africa still resolve themselves around a humanist grasp of memory. The ‘East’ is known as a land … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring
Tagged Arab Spring, Foaud Ajami, Reversal, Sophocles
What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
The North African Catholic Church throughout the last remaining centuries before the fall of Rome was the most fertile intellectual region before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. I don’t say that in a cavalier way, for the Church … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Conservatism, Constitution, Ethics, Harry Jaffa, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Politics, Theology
Tagged Abstractions, Alexis de Tocqueville, Athens & Jerusalem, Bismark, Catholic Absolutism, Cicero, Code of Justinian, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Faith & Reason, Forum, Founding Fathers, France, Islam, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Justinian, Liberty, Locke, machiavelli, Mary Ann Glendon, Max Weber, Ratio, Reflections on Revolution in France, Reign of Terror, Roman Civil Law, Tertullian, Tower, Tribonian
The Morality Of Political Realism: Fortitude For The American Imperium
What are we witnessing in the political and therefore spiritual morass that is a craven European Union, especially geopolitically and strategically? ”Idealism” is a tough sell in American Foreign Policy, but most often it has been alloyed to the social … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Antiquity, Arab Spring, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Constitution, Identity Development, International Relations, Islam, Morality, Near East, Pakistan, Politics
Tagged American Power, Foreign Policy, Idealism, Identity development, Imperium, Kissenger, Mesopotamia, Near East, Pakistan, Politics, Realism, Spiritual and Political
Persian Designs In Mesopotamia
War and diplomacy is filled with role reversals, ironies, contrasts that are fit for Sophocles and Shakespeare, for the social and political impact of war is always unmanageable. When the American’s established a Shia power grab after the fall of … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, International Relations, Islam, Near East, Pakistan, Terrorism
Tagged Conflict, Crescent, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Mesopotamia, Nouri al-Maliki, Pakistan, Persia, Proxies, Shi'ites, Shia, Tehran, Terrorism
American Tactics In Syria
I’ve always liked Elliot Abrams. Most folks who spend there time at foggy bottom are either crazy idealists or hardened realists. I think Abrams is of the latter camp. He was at the National Security Council from 2001-2009, he currently … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring
Tagged Alawite clan, Elliot Abrams, Hitting Syria, Syrian Arab Spring
Assad, Syria: The Political Purge, Reloading
Anyone even remotely familiar with Near Eastern politics knows that the House of Saud is waging war against Iranian proxies throughout the region. Its a ‘balance of power’ strategy that explains Riyadh and Iranian behavior. They’re realists who understand how … Continue reading
Posted in Arab Spring, International Relations, Islam, Middle East Peace, Near East, Politics, Terrorism
Tagged American isolates Syria, Arab Spring, Assad, Buthania Shaaban, foggy bottom, Idealism, Iran, Naji al Atri, Near East Policy, Pelosi, Proxies, Realism, Riyadh, Strategic Alliance, Strategy, Walid al Muallim
A Review Of The Arab Spring
Amir Taheiri ranks as the most informed Persian interlocutor the West has as it engages a nuclear Iran for hegemony throughout the Persian Gulf and South America. Recently he has written a neat summary of the Arab Spring. This spontaneous … Continue reading
