Not at all surprising from a Zionist-controlled, agenda-pushing Boston Globe, though.
Please read this first, thank you.
Now that you have been inoculated against the Zionist crap:
"The prescient 'Clash of Civilizations'" by H.D.S. Greenway | July 8, 2008
H.D.S. Greenway's column appears regularly in the Globe.
FIFTEEN YEARS have passed since Foreign Affairs published Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?" in its summer issue. It has subsequently become the most sought after article for reprints in the magazine's history. It, and the book by the same title minus the question mark, caused a storm among political scientists, many of whom simply refused to believe that, after the end of the Cold War, future conflicts would be over something so old fashioned. Only George Kennan's article on how to contain the USSR after World War II, bylined X, can compete with Huntington's in terms of influence.
"The dominant source of conflict will be cultural," Huntington famously predicted, and "fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future."
Stroke, a failing heart, and complications from diabetes have reduced Huntington, whom Fouad Ajami of Johns Hopkins University called "arguably the most influential and original political scientist of the last half century," to bed and a wheelchair these days. Now in his 81st year, he has good days and not so good days in the world of what has come to be called assisted living. His facility, called Windemere, is a shingled building that resembles a turn of the century summer cottage in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard.
His wife of 50 years, Nancy, lives nearby in a house built on the royalties of "Clash," as everyone calls Huntington's scoop of perception. She moved him to the Vineyard from Boston because of Windemere's friendly staff, and has built a new life on the island where they spent so many summers during the Huntingtons' Harvard years. Letters and e-mails still pour in, and the book has been translated into many languages, the latest being Albanian.
Perhaps the most articulate criticism of "Clash" came from Ajami who wrote, in 1993, that Huntington's thesis had not taken full account of modernization, that civilizations were no longer pure and unique; not "buried alive, as it were, by the Cold War." Ajami, also writing in Foreign Affairs, quoted Joseph Conrad in whose novels characters, going out east of Suez for the first time, would observe: "the East spoke to me, but it was in a western voice."
Conrad, however, lived in a time when the Western domination of the East was at its height. Huntington saw that with the end of imperialism and the end of the Cold War, the East might begin to push back. Huntington recognized that of all the distinguishing characteristics demarking civilizations religion was the most powerful.
Huntington noted that the Spanish Civil War had "provoked intervention from countries that politically were fascist, communist, and democratic (while) the Yugoslav conflict is provoking intervention from countries that are Muslim, Orthodox and Western Christian."
Ajami, however, wrote that "Huntington underestimates the tenacity of modernity and secularity in places that acquired these ways against great odds . . ."
The last 15 years have not seen conflict along all the fault lines that Huntington predicted, but his theories are looking ever more prescient, especially "along the boundaries of the crescent shaped Islamic bloc of nations from the bulge of Africa to central Asia," as he wrote in 1993.
This January, writing in The
"It would be unlike Samuel P. Huntington to say 'I told you so,' " Ajami wrote, and perhaps that's true. But a copy of Ajami's confession is pinned over Huntington's bed, and the very mention of it brings a grin to his face, even on days when he doesn't feel like speaking
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Yeah, that is the difference between MONSTERS like Huntington and people like us, readers.
He's HAPPY he is RIGHT about something so awful (and false); I'm NOT!!!
They LIE to YOU; I DO NOT!!!!
Also see: Greenway's Gaffe
