The biggest irony of the 21st century may arise from the two conflicting theories of Samuel Huntington and Francis Fukuyama. Huntington’s ‘Clash of Civilizations’ may arise because of people who believe in Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’…

Once, when people told me that war is a natural consequence of peace and prosperity, I disagreed. I accused them of stating a truism, afterall if you have a history of war and peace, they couldn’t have occured at the same time, they had to be interweaved. If you take that as evidence for a natural tendency of peace to cause wars, you’re not really saying anything about the war’s real reasons…

Lately however, as I observe our