“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
Another political science and journalistic approach that excludes the political economy of the world we live in.
Leaving the oil argument aside in relation to the invasion of Iraq, I agree that the ‘madman’ argument, racism, arrogance and hypocrisy are long standing characterises of the Western imperialist powers.
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