The Past and the Future of the Wider Middle East.

An analysis, addressed to Commander U.S. European Command and Supreme NATO Allied Commander Europe, Admiral James Stavridis

by George Sidirountios,
 MA (V. Cult.), MA (Hist.), PhD cand. (Hist.)

Dear Sir, with respect and sincere admiration

Plans for a safe and prosperous future of mankind cannot be made without analysing the past.
Sixty four thousand years ago, people used the oldest arrow heads we ever discovered. Indeed, Humanity has a long presence on the planet and the general assumption is that there is always evolution and .....
progress. This is false, because there had also been disastrous setbacks. Entire civilisations were wiped out by hoards of barbarians who introduced nothing else than slaughter and destruction. For example, the Germanic tribes of Alaric, driven by a savage desire to loot and enslave, invaded almost the entire ancient Greece in the end of the 4th century CE. Not much later, the same tribes invaded a