
The Clash of Civilizations
If Books Could Kill
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The Next Big Conflict Is Between the US and the Islamic World, Right?
I didn't quite realize we'd get into genocide victim blaming in this book. A lot of the basic thesis is just sort of obviously wrong. The US has what is now a longstanding alliance with Saudi Arabia, despite that it's a hardliner Islamic state. It makes no sense to see this as civilizational terms. Like there aren't really any Western versus the rest dynamics going on here.
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