Wednesday, June 29, 2016 12:45:02 AM
Blood borders .. How a better Middle East would look
By Ralph Peters June 2006
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=15652578
is one of the best you could find on that region's border problems .. the images there are kapoot, one of them i think is here ..
October 2, 2013
Peters’ “Blood borders” map
On Sept. 29, veteran foreign-affairs reporter Robin Wright offered a vision .. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=all .. for remapping the Middle East to alleviate tension. The redrawn map, she mused in the New York Times, could be “a strategic game changer for just about everybody, potentially reconfiguring alliances, security challenges, trade and energy flows for much of the world, too.” Perhaps her article and map will stir productive debate; it is certain to become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists.
AFJ can assert this because of a very similar exercise undertaken by Army Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters in the June 2006 AFJ. In “Blood Borders .. http://armedforcesjournal.com/article/2006/06/1833899 ”, (which is the same lost source link as in the F6 post above) Peters suggested that a reimagining of Middle Eastern and Asian borders along ethnic, sectarian and tribal lines might ease regional tensions. The article and the accompanying map were — and continue to be — widely taken as Washington’s blueprint for imperial meddling.
Today, the article and map remain among the most-visited pages on the AFJ website.
Middle East borders, as reimagined by Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters (2006).
Middle East borders, as reimagined by Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters (2006).
Wrote Peters .. http://armedforcesjournal.com/article/2006/06/1833899 (as above lost) : “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. …
“The boundaries projected in the maps accompanying this article redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant ‘cheated’ population groups, such as the Kurds, Baluch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities…”
http://armedforcesjournal.com/peters-blood-borders-map/
Lucky F6 posted all of that article those 10 years ago .. same as in Africa, of course, colonial rulers drew borders to divide
to create dissension and conflict .. as people as Alex Jones and his mate Donald Trump figuratively do in the USA today ..
By Ralph Peters June 2006
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=15652578
is one of the best you could find on that region's border problems .. the images there are kapoot, one of them i think is here ..
October 2, 2013
Peters’ “Blood borders” map
On Sept. 29, veteran foreign-affairs reporter Robin Wright offered a vision .. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/imagining-a-remapped-middle-east.html?pagewanted=all .. for remapping the Middle East to alleviate tension. The redrawn map, she mused in the New York Times, could be “a strategic game changer for just about everybody, potentially reconfiguring alliances, security challenges, trade and energy flows for much of the world, too.” Perhaps her article and map will stir productive debate; it is certain to become a lightning rod for conspiracy theorists.
AFJ can assert this because of a very similar exercise undertaken by Army Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters in the June 2006 AFJ. In “Blood Borders .. http://armedforcesjournal.com/article/2006/06/1833899 ”, (which is the same lost source link as in the F6 post above) Peters suggested that a reimagining of Middle Eastern and Asian borders along ethnic, sectarian and tribal lines might ease regional tensions. The article and the accompanying map were — and continue to be — widely taken as Washington’s blueprint for imperial meddling.
Today, the article and map remain among the most-visited pages on the AFJ website.
Middle East borders, as reimagined by Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters (2006).
Middle East borders, as reimagined by Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters (2006).
Wrote Peters .. http://armedforcesjournal.com/article/2006/06/1833899 (as above lost) : “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. …
“The boundaries projected in the maps accompanying this article redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant ‘cheated’ population groups, such as the Kurds, Baluch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities…”
http://armedforcesjournal.com/peters-blood-borders-map/
Lucky F6 posted all of that article those 10 years ago .. same as in Africa, of course, colonial rulers drew borders to divide
to create dissension and conflict .. as people as Alex Jones and his mate Donald Trump figuratively do in the USA today ..
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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