And to think that there were those who said that talk of Eurabia was just scaremongering. The neocon hero Sarkozy is driving through the admission to NATO and the EU, in all but name, not just of Turkey, but of every country in the Middle East and North Africa. And Libya has not only made that recent "historic" deal with Berlusconi's Italy, but is soon to be graced with the presence of Condoleezza Rice.
But isn't Libya very Westernised? Well, yes, Gaddafi or no Gaddafi, it is true that there remains a very strong Italian influence in at least urban or elite Libyan culture. But at least one third of the population nevertheless adheres to the Sanusi synthesis of Wahhabism and popular Sufism. Similar things could be said about every other such "almost Western" country around the south and east coasts of the Mediterranean.
As in 1980s Afghanistan, 1990s Bosnia, and today's Turkey, Kosovo, Pakistan, Kashmir (wait for the Kosovo-inspired UDI there - the jungle drums are beating), Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Iraq, and putatively Syria and Xinjiang; and as by means of the limitless immigration necessitated by the "free" market; so also by this means, the neocons continue their relentless pursuit for themselves of the privileged dhimmitude of Moorish Spain.
And to hell with the rest of us.
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No, this sound more like Sarko wanting to take his ball and play with his other friends. Laughland is one of the few British journalists to have written convincingly about this phenomenon: the French have a new fantasy du jour - a new "Mediterranean League" (or whatever they're calling it), with the French being the leaders and those terrible warmongering "Anglo-Saxons" (and their Saxon cousins in Germany, presumably) being kept at arm's length. Whatever Sarko may say about Turkey joining the EU (still official British and US policy) it's just to keep the Turks sweet. Fundamentally (and mentally) he's still a greasy little nationalist, trying to reassert France's influence in a globalised world.
ReplyDeleteI'd be all for French influence if it wasn't his.
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