Samuel P. Huntington Quotes

In 1920, The West Ruled Huge Amounts Of The World.

Also, Of Course, For Most Of This Time Most Americans Thought Of America As A White Country With, At Best, Only A Very Segregated And Subordinate Role For Blacks.

Both Sides Are Divided And Western Countries Collaborate With Muslim Countries And Vice Versa.

Fascism And Communism Have Not Entirely Disappeared But Have Been Sidelined Certainly, And Liberal Democracy Has Come To Be Accepted, In Theory At Least, Around The World, If Not Always In Practice.

Obviously Pakistan And The U.s. Are Very Different Countries, But We Have Common Geopolitical Interests In Preventing Communist Take Over In Afghanistan And Hence, Now That Pakistan Has A Government That We Can Cooperate With, Even Though It Is A Military Government, We Are Working Together With Them In Order To Promote Our Common Interests. But Obviously We Also Differ With Pakistan On A Number Of Issues.

I Think It's Hard To Talk About The Muslim World And Christian World As Blocks.

I Think We've Seen At Least The Beginnings Of Rather Significant Social And Economic Change In The Muslim World, Which I Think Will In Due Course Lead To More Political Change.

People Have Multiple Identities.

The U.s. Has And Still Is Cooperating With Various Military Dictatorships Around The World. Obviously We Would Prefer To See Them Democratized, But We Are Doing It Because We Have National Interests, Whether It's Working With Pakistan On Afghanistan Or Whatever.

Maybe Iraq Will Come Back And Become The Dominant Power Among Arab Countries. That Seems To Me As Conceivable.

What Are The Prospects For An Arab State Serving A Leading Role Comparable To The Role That Other States Place In Other Regions? There Is No Obvious Candidate. Saudi Arabia Has The Money But A Relatively Small Population. Iraq Was A Great Potential Leader, As A Sizable Country With Great Oil Resources And A Highly Educated Population, But It Went Off In The Wrong Direction.

Israel Has Military Capabilities Including Nuclear Weapons, Far Surpassing Any Other Power In The Middle East, But It's A Small Country. The Rest Of The Middle Eastern Peoples Are Muslim And Israelis Are Not, So It Is Hardly In Any Position To Become The Leading Power.