[Machette]

Originally Posted by c312

Don't get me wrong, Huntington's theory has some good points to it that make sense, but I'm not gonna just beleive it because I read it so it must be true. There is a lot of controversy over his theory, I feel some people just read it and cite it to sound smart and think it's a unanimous opinion in the world and that it must be true.

Huntington's theory which as you pointed out was highly controversial, no one believed that what he explained would ever some true. I remember one part of his book he listed this statistic about muslims/catholics/buddhists/hinduism and other religions and the stats showed that over time muslims would over take christianity in a number of years (2025 I beleive, dont have the book on me so I can't tell you exactly) but he beleived that the world right now was split up into different sections - Muslim world, orthodox christian world etc...and he saw these worlds sooner or later clashing. Foreign policy would not be based on ideology any more it would be based on culture. I get your point about it being something in which you read and everyone is quick to use it as a footnote, but I believe that Hungtinton was really catching on to something with his theory and its extremely manipulative. (I remember coming out with a totally different outlook on foreign affairs after reading it)