Intelligent article, thanks for posting.
As you can guess, I more or less agree with the conclusion, though I would put the events of 1953 in the context of post-WWI events in the mideast:
Thus, looking backward, we can say the
1953 coup and its consequences afforded the
starting point for the political alignments in
today’s Middle East and inner Asia. With
hindsight, can anybody say the Islamic Revolution
of 1979 was inevitable? Or did it
only become so once the aspirations of the
Iranian people were temporarily expunged
in 1953? Was the radicalization of the clergy,
for that matter, inevitable? This essay
has proposed an examination of the 1953
coup as a starting point for objective discussion.
Certainly looking back at that event,
one might justly recall the famous epitaph
for Sir Christopher Wren, the architect who
rebuilt London after the Great Fire: “If you
wish to see his monument, look around.”•
As for Hap's quotes from the Al Qaeda people on the war between Moslems and Christians--you can find, if you look, analogous quotes from all sorts of religious extremists, including Jewish, Christian, Sikhs and others. I don't believe any of them actually represent majority voices in their own ethnic/religious groups. At least not yet. One reason for opposing the Bush admin tactics in Iraq is that they actually strengthens the extremist Islam message and appeal.
But nevermind that. No one's mind is going to be changed right now. Perhaps later. After many more deaths and other casualties, physical and psychic.
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