The Lebanese Daily Star - The Arab states drift into irrelevance

Yesterday we clipped an article here talking about the factors that bring people together to create the citizenry of a state -- either ethnic or racial homogenity, on one hand, or a binding ideology and culture on the other. We have talked for a while about how Islamism has filled this vacuum in several places, how Iraq is faced with this quandary and could become the biggest failed state, and how we are in a stageof post-Arab nationalism, whee the artificial lines drawn by British and french colonialists have no bearing, and the global security risks attendant to the sorting out of these issues.

The attached op-ed from the Lebanon Daily Star further explores this issue, and is worth a read (The Daily Star - Opinion Articles - The Arab states drift into irrelevance). The quote this article:

"Of the many transformations taking place throughout the Middle East, the most striking is that the new regional security architecture gradually emerging in the Arab world seems to be managed almost totally by non-Arab parties: Iran, Turkey, Israel, the United States, and now Ethiopia.

It is possible that the Arabs could write themselves out of their own history, ending up as mere consumers of foreign goods, proxies for foreign powers, and spectators in the game of defining their own identity, security and destiny. This is not certain, but the current trend points in that direction, which would be a demeaning cap after a century of repeated incompetence in the field of Arab security and statehood."

Have a good day.