A New Middle-East Map

摘要

Ralph Peters, in his article titled: 'Blood borders—How a better Middle East would look' published in the August issue of Armed Forces Journal, a monthly magazine for officers and leaders in the United States military community, makes the shocking disclosure of a new map of the Middle East, with redrawn boundaries. The logic he forwards is abysmal: "International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they inflict upon those whom frontiers force together or separate makes an enormous difference — often the difference between freedom and oppression, tolerance and atrocity, the rule of law and terrorism, or even peace and war.