The Oil for Security Myth and Middle East Insecurity Related McJihad: Empire and Islam Between the US and Saudi Arabia Why the Gulf Wealth Matters to Britain [and the U.S.]
“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