Prof. M. S. Megalommatis, The 27 Key Points for US Success in Iraq - 11 January 2005
- 8 years ago
Excerpts from the far-seeing article which was proved correct:
The American administration must not seek impossible solutions in Iraq; as a non-colonial power, the US cannot just replace Britain or France in areas of the colonized Middle East. The US must bring down the colonial structures, and firstly the ominous Arab nationalism. Mesopotamia is falsely called 'Iraq', and the local Arameans were never Arabs.
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Iraq does not exist; it never did! After 1258 (the destruction of Baghdad) the area belonged to various successive administrations with faraway capitals (Istanbul). Earlier, Baghdad, as capital of the Islamic Caliphate, did not rule only the area of Mesopotamia, but a much larger one. As concept, Iraq is a colonial technical entity, and nothing more.
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Education must prevail over barbarism, and this applies mostly to the Arabic speaking Shia and Sunni groups of population that had systematically been victimized by the colonials through the diffusion among them of false theories, distorted historiography, fake education, and monstrous disfiguration of their historical identity and ethnic integrity. Starting with the arrival of the English colonials, these populations were engulfed in tenebrous ignorance and fanaticism, and this was mainly due to a) concealment of the largest part of the existing historiography and b) the diffusion of fake theories and of false historical narratives based on the colonial fabrication of a supposed Arab nation. This process involved a criminal concealment of enormous historical sources pertaining to the Pre-Christian, Christian, and Islamic History of the Modern Nations of Mesopotamia, and this plunged the Arabic speaking Shia and Sunni groups into the monstrous deception of Pan-Arabism. In reality, they were Arameans, but they were told that they are Arabs on the basis of a baseless and distortive evaluation of their linguistic Arabization. This is tantamount to taking the African Americans for 'Anglo-Saxons'!
First published online in Buzzle: 11-1-2005
Re-published also: https://www.academia.edu/23358285/The...
The American administration must not seek impossible solutions in Iraq; as a non-colonial power, the US cannot just replace Britain or France in areas of the colonized Middle East. The US must bring down the colonial structures, and firstly the ominous Arab nationalism. Mesopotamia is falsely called 'Iraq', and the local Arameans were never Arabs.
............
Iraq does not exist; it never did! After 1258 (the destruction of Baghdad) the area belonged to various successive administrations with faraway capitals (Istanbul). Earlier, Baghdad, as capital of the Islamic Caliphate, did not rule only the area of Mesopotamia, but a much larger one. As concept, Iraq is a colonial technical entity, and nothing more.
........................
Education must prevail over barbarism, and this applies mostly to the Arabic speaking Shia and Sunni groups of population that had systematically been victimized by the colonials through the diffusion among them of false theories, distorted historiography, fake education, and monstrous disfiguration of their historical identity and ethnic integrity. Starting with the arrival of the English colonials, these populations were engulfed in tenebrous ignorance and fanaticism, and this was mainly due to a) concealment of the largest part of the existing historiography and b) the diffusion of fake theories and of false historical narratives based on the colonial fabrication of a supposed Arab nation. This process involved a criminal concealment of enormous historical sources pertaining to the Pre-Christian, Christian, and Islamic History of the Modern Nations of Mesopotamia, and this plunged the Arabic speaking Shia and Sunni groups into the monstrous deception of Pan-Arabism. In reality, they were Arameans, but they were told that they are Arabs on the basis of a baseless and distortive evaluation of their linguistic Arabization. This is tantamount to taking the African Americans for 'Anglo-Saxons'!
First published online in Buzzle: 11-1-2005
Re-published also: https://www.academia.edu/23358285/The...