“This [IS, the Islamic State, better known as ISIS] is an - TopicsExpress



          

“This [IS, the Islamic State, better known as ISIS] is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-of-days strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated.” -General Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . In fact, I believe that the West has underestimated the power of contemporary absolute ideologies, whether they are right-wing, nationalistic or religiously determined. After WW II and the end of the communist era we thought that the power of these absolute, exclusive and identity-based ideologies, full of hatred for everything that is different, were a phenomenon of the past, which makes is totally unprepared for what is happening now in the MIddle East, Ukrain, the Indian subcontinent...
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:38:27 +0000

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