The conventional, if less than brilliant, strategy of the jihadis (in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc), is to cause collapse of the state, with the idea that they themselves can fill the vacuum with a kind of improvised Shari’ah-based system. Basically, erase the existing order, and create a new one. Aside from being unrealistically simplistic,…
Author: Shahid Bolsen
Shahid Bolsen is the founder of the Middle Nation Movement.
Q. Has there ever been any regime that was toppled because of di…
Q. Has there ever been any regime that was toppled because of disruption to corporate interests? A. In fact I think it would be hard for you to find an example of a regime being toppled for any other reason. Allende in Chile, Mossadegh in Iran, Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in Guatemala, Patrice Lumumba in Congo,…