In 1920, The West Ruled Huge Amounts

People Everywhere Talk About Islam And The West. Presumably That Has Some Relationship To Reality, That These Are Entities That Have Some Meaning And They Do. Of Course The Core Ofthat Reality Is Differences In Religion.

U.s. Foreign Policy Is In Every Area Impacted By Ethnic Groups Of One Sort Or Another As Well As Economic Groups And Regional Groups.

Collective Will Supplants Individual Whim

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.

These Transnationalists Have Little Need For National Loyalty, View National Boundaries As Obstacles That Thankfully Are Vanishing, And See National Governments As Residues From The Past Whose Only Useful Function Is To Facilitate The Elite's Global Operations