An Hiatus in the Project of Muslim People Control

Senator McCann is visiting with the Syrian rebels in Syria.  The Syrian government appears to be gaining the upper-hand over the rebels.  The rebels need support to continue their fight.  It must come from Muslims!  I personnally think the Hezbollah could have a major role in garnering Muslim support, since it's part of the Arab League and has territorial land to gain; and a Muslim preeminence role to play should the rebels take over.  But Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of the Hezbollah group is fearing that if Assad falls, Syria will be controlled by the US and Israel; and indeed, Israel may invade Lebanon.  He is sending troops to help his friend Assad!

That kind of thinking is passe.  The US and no other major power should interfere in the affairs of the Middle East (nor, should they be allowed to); and President Obama, to his credit, sees this; but Nasrallah is still wallowing in fear of big-power control of his country.  Nasrallah has much to gain if Assad goes; his thinking is clouded with fear.  (All Russia wants to do his keep its hand in the Middle Eastern pie.)  Plainly, the Hezbollah should be calling for a meeting of the Arab League; and further, for Arab League intervention.  The Muslims must stand together in unity. 

It may seem to the Saudis that Muslim people control is a threat to its own governmental structure.  I think this is a correct supposition, but as long as Mecca belongs to Saudi Arabia, there is little chance of governmental change in that country.

A real problem in any Muslim country is the radical political divisions that exist.  I have often thought the Nigerians would dominate African politics should they ever become a unified country, instead of a manifold of factious, warring groups of cut-throats over oil, etc. that exist today.  But that divisiveness has lasted for centuries in the Muslim world, giving rise to the many dictators that dominated until the Arab Spring marches of the people.

Once the Muslims become self-confident of their own powers to govern amicably among themselves, permitting dissent but not separateness, they will move ahead.   Sure, the social problems are great, but not insurmountable.  They must believe that Allah will give them strength and continued eye on the vision.

(P.S. Currently--as in every case of international prominence--there is distortion in accounts of what's happening.)

Friday, May 24, 2013

--I've been editing the Social-X series and have become discouraged.  I was intent on editing it, then submitting for e-book consideration in the appropriate format.  But as I continue the editing process, I am coming to think that there is very little interest in the topics that comprise the series as I have interpreted them.  My treatment is too intellectual, technical and dissimilar, frankly, to how others talk of these matters.  So, I am slowing down the effort to edit, etc. the series.

--However, that has given me time to think of extending the series by including at least one more topic: that being--social meaning.  I raised the topic in the rumination on federalism paper and may include aspects of other ruminations under this rubric.

--Meantime, I am enjoying my move to El Paso, settling back into routines I have developed over the years of being in this city.  One thing that concerns me as it would other seniors of my age:  I want to stay downtown where I'm at, though it may seem I should be in some senior housing project, e.g., assisted living.  I had a chance at living in that situation in L.A. before I went on to El Paso from Omaha.