SOunds idiotic. The ancient peoples have long been wanting to dominate the individual oriented west. Individualism is a quantum leap in evolution which the tribalists fear, and are feverishly trying to control. Hierarchy has failed.
We're paying the price for what rome did to the middleast. Finally retribution is coming. But we were all victims of rome.
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ahz
while rome had fun in the middle east, alexander did more to screw things up
then there were the 'orthodox' christians
the ottomans/turks
wwi
wwii - with the establishment of israel
islam thrives on being the underdogs and the newbies
but globalization will overtake everyone if global climate change does not beat it to the punch