Blood Borders

Below you see two maps of the Middle East. The top map is the current Middle East and the map below it represents the Middle East as redrawn by Ralph Peters. Who is Ralph Peters? He's a retired US Army Lt. Colonel, writer and essayist. The maps you see below are illustrations used to support an article he wrote recently for the Armed Forces Journal titled 'Blood Borders'. I admit I hadn't heard of the Armed Forces Journal before this article popped onto my radar but I'm a little hooked. Imagine the military point of view without Rumsfeld and you've got an idea. Here's his main idea, in a nutshell...;

"While the Middle East has far more problems than dysfunctional borders alone—from cultural stagnation through scandalous inequality to deadly religious extremism—the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region’s comprehensive failure isn’t Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshipped by our own diplomats."

So he proposes redrawing the borders (see fig. 2). While this article in a pretty obscure military mag hasn't received much attention at home it has fired some heated responses abroad.

Here's a thoughtful piece by Yassar Latif Hamdani of Pak Tribune.

And Kurt Nimmo of Uruknet.info.

Say what you may, it's an interesting idea and one that may draw more attention as Iraq devolves into Civil War. Mr. Peters drew some fire for the following quote:

Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.

Yikes! His point is, that what we call ethnic cleansing is the process by which most nation states are born...argue if you will but check out the map and imagine...what if?






Stay Loose zooheads and as always...

Stay Naked.

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