Quotes from William R. Polk

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants [of the global south] will not. Muslims, like Jews, increasingly probe into and publicize their holocaust. The "deep past" already plays a significant role in the growth of Muslim sentiment toward the Christian North. It will play an important role in international affairs far into the future

Even if we, as northerners, choose to ignore this history, the victims' descendants will not

the Mongol rulers of what became Iran, a few Christian

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

Indeed, our concept of "East versus West"—or, as it has been called, "the clash of civilizations"—arises from Greek opposition to Persia.