“The problem with the Houthis,” he said, “is that they are a reaction to others’ behavior.” How the war in Yemen became a bloody stalemate and the worst humanitarian crisis in the world
“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