Mid-East Military Consortium

     This is one action item I am proposing that I'm positively certain will be acted upon at some time or other!  And, it's a guaranteed winner!

      I am proposing the formation of a Mid-East Military Consortium--in organization similar to NATO and functioning like the African Union on the entire continent of Africa.  It's purpose would be to maintain the peace and promote national stability in the Middle-East.  Its primary members would be Turkey and Egypt and Saudi Arabia with assistance and aid from the United States, its member states possessing national military who are already distinguished acting individually or severally in this capacity.

     In the present regional polity, the consortium would be concerned in establishing a democratically functional government in Yemen, in fighting radical Islamic terrorism that threatens the country of Iraq  (and, more specifically Kurdistan), and in assuring the region of non-proliferation of nuclear armaments. The proposed Consortium would also be involved in training local militia and maintaining  military bases in any country of the Mid-East who invites its presence.

     Ultimately, this consortium would become a major force freeing the region from outside interference and control in matters of national security and politics.    

Friday, January 23, 2015

--Working on the Globalization project, which is a long-term effort.

--Have decided to write on Islam Pragmatics (IP), that will be similar to the Christian Pragmatics (CP) in format (already in the blog didactics and globalization).  In this effort, I will use courses I'm taking over at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Center at the University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) for information-gathering, among other resources.

  The point to Islam Pragmatics  is to highlight aspects of the Muslim religion that are useful in everyday living.  Islam is a fast-growing religion around the world, far surpassing the numbers of Christians. But just as the Christian religion has changed over time--no more Crusades!--so the Muslim religion must change in order to meet the spiritual needs of its today living members.  (Incidentally, the early Christian church had appointed women as ministers of the Gospel.  One woman so designated even traveled upon occasion with St. Paul.  But somehow the religion in the Middle Ages no longer appointed women to the clergy.  In today's practice of Christianity we're seeing a return to the early Church, it would seem.)