3. This switch, doubling down and worsening the problem rather than fixing it, is the only real failure in the middle east’s history.The sequence of conquests, esp. the Turks, probably ended the last chance the region to correct the deep cultural and institutional problems.
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@_MEeeao 2. So I see centuries of heroic effort trying to solve an almost unsolvable problem of geography, populations, trade, and incentives, and like fukuyama and probably every other thinker in history, see only one failure – the conversion of islam from confucian like widsom to dogma.
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