“Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab unity but in the way it captured the high ground of all politics: the language and… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“History” has very little to say about this war other than to recall the greatest battle ever fought between Arabs and Persians on the… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“In Iraq, the public has lost all sense of self; it exists only in the form artificially imparted to it by “its” regime. This… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“The intimate connection between war and citizenship lies at the heart of the modern state,” Fouad ‘Ajami wrote of the 1967 defeat.” — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“Not prettiness, mind you, whose nature is trite, but beauty, which sinks to the depths” — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“Masses of Iraqis keep on dying for no palpably tangible reason that they can so much as identify to themselves, far less anyone else.… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
“Therefore, the legacy of pan-Arabism as a phase in postwar Arab politics lies not in its failure over half a century to achieve Arab… — Kanan Makiya Copy Share Image
