Friday, August 19, 2011
Turks get it waaaay more than right!
Been focusing lately on Turkey as a model. In the last ten years they've been able to mix very healthy economic growth (manufacturing, not banking!) with a healthy traditional culture. That's unique.
Now they're taking a step above success, into the true high ground of morality.
Nobody else has been able to help Somalia. Western countries, even when we could afford it, couldn't break through the cultural barrier. Stupidly as usual, we tried to interfere militarily and got slapped down. Now we couldn't afford it even if we could figure out how to do it right.
So Turkey steps into the cockpit and grabs the controls. Because their current government is explicitly Muslim, they can be heard by the Somali people, and they share a common view of humanity and governance.
This is a giant positive change in the political shape of the world. For the first time in living memory, a competent and good country is intervening in a trouble spot. Up till now, all the intervention has been either by wacked-out demented senile babbling lunatics like America and Britain, or by highly competent and totally evil China.
Now they're taking a step above success, into the true high ground of morality.
Nobody else has been able to help Somalia. Western countries, even when we could afford it, couldn't break through the cultural barrier. Stupidly as usual, we tried to interfere militarily and got slapped down. Now we couldn't afford it even if we could figure out how to do it right.
So Turkey steps into the cockpit and grabs the controls. Because their current government is explicitly Muslim, they can be heard by the Somali people, and they share a common view of humanity and governance.
This is a giant positive change in the political shape of the world. For the first time in living memory, a competent and good country is intervening in a trouble spot. Up till now, all the intervention has been either by wacked-out demented senile babbling lunatics like America and Britain, or by highly competent and totally evil China.
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