The author is an ex-Soviet dissident and political prisoner who emigrated to the United States and became a senior research fellow at the Hudson Institute, a leading neoconservative think tank. In the 1990s he became disillusioned with the hostile US approach to democratic non-communist Russia and returned to Moscow.
His life story was very popular with RI readers, for whom he wrote this article.
If we want to end the current Middle East debacle, we have to really understand who drives it and why. Western media represents it as a struggle for oil and gas and as a clash of civilizations. While WWs I and II were essentially about territories and resources, this war is about the abstract ideas that underlie civilizations and philosophies.
Humanity has been drawn into the war between fundamentalists of the three monotheistic religions, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, each fighting for its own version of the Heavenly Kingdom. Images of unspeakable atrocities make the “civilized” world tremble in disgust and horror. Is there anything we can do to stop this madness?
The main instigator of this war is the most religious among the “civilized” nations. A majority the hegemon’s population are thought to believe in God and almost half adhere to fundamentalist persuasions.
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