Walter Russell Mead Quotes
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
Mead, Walter Russell. "Mead: 'Anti-Americanism' in Middle East Rooted in U.S. Support for Israel, Backing for Authoritarian Regimes." Interview by Bernard Gwertzman. Council on Foreign Relations, 19 May 2004.
Although a clergyman, he has his own army, stores arms and soldiers in his Mosques, and acts more like a warlord than a member of the clergy.
Islam is the only religion which has a concept that all adherers to the religion must militarily defend any majority Muslim nation that is attacked. Within Christianity, or other major religions there is no such concept. Despite this religious concept over the years Islamic countries have warred against each other much more so than non-Muslims have attacked Islamic countries. For ovrer 400 years Islamic Turkey subjugated all the Arab Counties. Iran and Iraq have frequently been at each other’s throats. Bangladesh had to fight for its independence from Pakistan, etc. Even in the Palestinian Israeli conflict, Jordan killed more Palestinians than Israel has.
In 2002 he thought that President George W. Bush was the fool American. He thought the invasion of Iraq was a terrible idea which was doomed to failure.
Walter Russell Mead is an American academic. He is the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and taught American foreign policy at Yale University. He was also the editor-at-large of The American Interest magazine. Mead is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and a scholar at the Hudson Institute.
