Professor
Great summary. Thanks for publishing it.
My own view is that the Empires of the West should have been maintained at all costs.
I know that that seems to be an extreme view, given the interpretations generally put on the history of the 20th Century, mostly by the West itself.
But there it is now.
It seems to me that that view was the right one all along, but Western politics, not mainly American at all but rather mostly British, had turned against Western imperialism over the course of the 19th Century, not following America's so called lead at all, but rather its own sad traditions of radicalism.
Your passage below, while tempting to many and in some ways to me, seems to me no longer to be viable, either, for us, going forward now, or for anyone else, for a variety of reasons:
"We must eventually be forced to the conclusion that we might have reached long ago: that the Muslim world, like the European one, will have to work out its political development on its own."
These worlds will not, cannot now in fact, be allowed to work out anything strictly for themselves on their own, even if they might, at one time, have seemed to have been able to do so.
All the best
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