What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
What Every American Should Know About the Middle East
By Daniel Miessler on March 30th, 2008: Tagged as America | Civilization | Education | Politics
Most in the United States don’t know much about the Middle East or the people that live there. This lack of knowledge hurts our ability to understand world events and, consequently, our ability to hold intelligent opinions about those events.
For example, frighteningly few know the difference between Sunni and Shia Muslims, and most think the words “Arab” and “Muslim” are pretty much interchangeable. They aren’t. So here’s a very brief primer aimed at raising the level of knowledge about the region to an absolute minimum.
Pretty good stuff here. We robots download data sets on every planet we settle, so this is all old hat to a steel-topper like myself.
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