Today what is going on in the Middle East is rooted in political opportunism, the spread of different ideologies, radicalism, and the distortion of religious tenets in order to instill their own ideology. The Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 led to fears in Sunni countries that the Shia revolution could spread to other Muslim countries. Continue reading
Today democracy has become one of the features of contemporary politics in the Middle East. Many leaders, scholars and citizens consider themselves to be democrats but fail to come up with a single definition of democracy. Continue reading
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by Tyrants.” Benjamin Franklin
The issue of religion and the state is one of the most burning social issues in the Middle East. From Tahrir Square in Egypt to Taksim Square in Turkey people are protesting the same thing: people are battling over theocracy or democracy, and the disagreement arises from the question about what should be the supreme authority. Continue reading
Throughout history, the Kurdish people have faced one incontrovertible fact of real politics. Kurds have no real predictable or long-term allies in the Middle East. Because of disunity among Kurdish people, they have often sought alliances with international powers, and most of the time these friendly allies decided it was in their interest to drop Kurds in favor of the regime that they opposed. Continue reading
In his visit to the United States Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was received with top honors by the Obama administration; this shows that the United States takes very seriously its strategic relationship with Turkey. The main agenda for Prime Minister Erdogan’s visit was to seek reinforcement from the Obama administration for NATO’s intervention in Syria to prevent a political solution to the Syrian crisis. Erdogan thought the crisis in Syria would be like the one in Libya. Continue reading
The United States and its allies thought that the regime change in Syria would be a slam dunk. They thought it would be like Libya. Using a no fly zone imposed by NATO, they thought they could bomb and kill or capture Assad and thereby end the war. Syria is pretty much now at the forefront of international policy. Continue reading
The West, the United States, Israel, Arabs and Turks have tried all kinds of provocations, slanders, and excuses to get rid of Assad’s regime, and sooner or later the Assad regime will be replaced by another one, which may prove to be a worse regime such as Sunni Wahabists or Gulenists. Granted, at present the Assad regime is worse; in fact, we know that more than a million Kurds who lived in Syria could not have their citizenship until the Syrian civil war broke out two years ago.
A wise man is someone who knows and sees differences between good and evil, just and unjust, right and wrong, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.
For a long time one of the biggest blessings America has had is safety and in part because it is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the East and the Pacific Ocean on the West... Continue reading
