17-06-2013, 10:29 AM
Quote:In years to come, historians will ask how America after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed.
No need to wait for historians of the future to comment, as the answer is already clear as clear can be.
It's oil silly.
The strategy is: divide and conquer, sow and reap, make war not peace - war is profitable, oil is wanted, and global hegemony is the name of the game. Keep the folks back home looking afar and not around them.
And remember: Russia's Putin has agreed to rent to NATO a military base deep inside Russia. Russia is part of the G8. And most importantly of all, Russian is Christian not Muslim.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14