It all very much depends on whether or not you can use the failure of the Ottoman Empire as a tool in understanding events on the ground. If the base-layer ...

It all very much depends on whether or not you can use the failure of the Ottoman Empire as a tool in understanding events on the ground. If the base-layer ... situation for Hezbollah is in essence, an anarchy, then you go down one branch. If it's that ... reasonably good States exist, but these folks are just unreasonable people[1], then you go another. [1] many of these folks are cast in the mold of Sayyid Qutb, who I can never seem to make "reasonable" in my own mind.... Chomsky's political writings ( at least the ones with which I am familiar ) use an expression of surprise at the venality of state actors as the main ... thing.