Interview with Paul Rogers , author of A War Too Far: Iraq, Iran and the New American Century (Plutobooks 2006) and A war on Terror Afghanistan and After (Pluto Books 2004) . >> Listen to the interview Lebanon - What is behind the Conflict? This week quote: "Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions." Bertolt Brecht, German playwright
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51