Interesting point of view

Submitted by Mike Shapiro (United States), Aug 17, 2010 at 17:06

I thought that this was one of the most perceptive essays I have seen on this "problem." One of the things that I find to be very telling is that the nation-state concept is antithetical to most of the Islamic states. The history of many of these entities goes no further back than the British domination/ occupation of the area, when a set of dotted lines was drawn on a map.

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