Thinking Out of the Box - Devolution, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Etc.

Submitted by Robert (United States), Sep 27, 2017 at 12:57

One of the Problems of Europe and the Middle East
is that Immigration flows only in one Direction,
from the Middle East especially into Europe.
The other direction conveys the Stigma of Colonialism or Imperialism, unfortunately.
ISIS isn't being defeated in one sense because its "Martyrs" have caused
Millions of Muslims to Dilute the European Enlightened Christians
with the Backward Islamist who have still not learned how to modernize the Religion.
And in the United States, the Left of Center coalition is equating anti-Islamism with Racism.
How wonderful it would be if the Cosmopolitan Alexandria City of Egypt
was restored to its days before the First World War ?
But this could only be accomplish if Europeans, Christians and Jews, returned to it.

I have more hope for Progressive Change in Saudi Arabia and Egypt
than I do in Iran or Turkey. The only good thing now I can think of
relating to Turkey is that Dictators like Erdogan aren't immortal.
Perhaps his Islamism isn't replaceable by another Tyrant?
Iran is more difficult to assess I think, because its Totalitarianism
will continue under a different Ayatollah.

Perhaps the break will com when the rest of the Arab countries
of Saudi Arabia and Gulf Coast make formal Peace with Israel.
Maybe it is partially the task of Israel to spread Modernity to the Middle East.
One way is to pressure Palestinians, who are probably among to most Westernized Arabs
to settle among their Sunni brethren. Ethnic Cleansing means forced expulsion;
but "Ethnic Mixing" is to encourage Diversity so that Diverse Religious Communities
can learn to live with one another. The way the USA achieved Religious Freedom
was by compromising - each extreme Puritanical Christian Community
was given the liberty to have their own Church.
That is certainly not the case in most Islam-majority countries.
Religious pluralism came to Italy in part when the Papal dependencies were broken up.
Similarly, the Protestant Revolution result in establishing that the Soverign Ruler
was free to choose allegiance to Rome, or to its own Protestant denomination,
Lutheran, Calvinist, Anglican, etc.

A distantly breakup phenomena is known as "Devolution."
In the case of the Middle East there is these days
the unjustified competing diplomatic doctrine of "Stability."
If the Kurds, by their Struggle for Sovereignty,
cause the violation of the sanctity of National Borders of their neighbors
which house about 20,000,000 Kurds, so much the better.
Iraq, Syria, Turkey, & Iran get Destabilized - so what?
All are drastically failed states: Iran is the only (except for the small Vatican City-State) Theocracy,
meaning that its Ayatollah who speaks "in the name of God";
Turkey is under the Marshall Law of "Sultan/Caliph" Erdogan;
Syria is under the Baathist-Stalinist regime of Assad,
beholden to Iran and Turkey, two non-Jeffersonian Democracies themselves to say the least;
and Iraq is similarly a dependency of Iran.

So, the hope of the Middle East are the Kurdish People,
with their ultimately just dream of a Soverign Greater Kurdistan,
whose Muslim Women are also Warriors.
And here we have a People who are Muslim
who love the Jews of Israel.
But where is Henry Kissinger on all this.
His Metternich was an Austrian Reactionary.
Prussian Bismark was a Dictatorial Progressive who united and created Modern Germany,
even though the Reactionary Hitler brought Germany's downfall in WWII.
Participating in History is a dirty business of humanity
in which ideal choices rarely exist.
But stupidity, and failure to think out of the box,
is an accident of History
when no Washington, Napoleon, Ataturk, or Ocalan,
is available around the corner.
"Criminal" Mandela of South Africa was pardoned and exonerated.
So was "Terrorist" Arafat as leader of the Palestinians.
Why is Kurdish Ocalan still criminalized by the powers that be,
and kept in a prison island by Turkey,
and not permitted to meet with his family,
under the Marshall Law of Fascist, State-Terrorist, Erdogan?
We do not hear very much these days of the suffering of the Kurds in Turkey.
One thing Hitler did very well is hid the atrocities of his Regime through the Gestapo and SS.
I certainly don't intend to insult Erdogan by comparing him to Hitler.
But the fate of the Armenians of the Ottoman past
can legitimately be compared to Erdogan's treatment of the Kurds
now being imprisoned under Marshall Law against Terrorism and the Coup.
Erdogan may not have burned the Turkish Reichstag,
but he certainly knew how to take advantage of its Burning (the Coup).

I think that when President Trump says America First, he means it.
Americans need to show him that anti-Ataturk Turkey of today under Erdogan
is no friend of the United States. Unfortunately, he depends too much on his three Generals,
and the Department of Defense which is ill-prepared to think Strategically,
and is to focused on winning the Tactical battle against ISIS/ISIL.
Secretary of State Rex is no Diplomat, and how versed in History he is I do not know.
Maybe it is Henry Kissinger who can persuade The Donald
on the right course of the Ship of State (of the USA) ?

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