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Dawkins is kinda late to realize that Christianity is our best defense against Islam.
it's fundamentally hostile to women, hostile to gays and, I find that I like to live in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith
Our best defense is to get out of the Middle East and to stop escalating.
Little too late for that
The big Internalized Leftism myth is that all trouble in the Middle East is caused by American Intervention.
The Assyrians were replaced by the Guti of the lower slopes and valleys of the Zagros mountains, for example, before the Bronze Age collapse, FFS.
And so in the 1980s, the Iran-Iraq War was War #477 stretching back into the 2000s BC over this area.
Very little is known about the Guti, who appear to have been barbarian raiders from the Zagros [Mountains] who brought to an end the Dynasty of Akkad and destroyed its capital circa 2200 BC. Gutium, a mountainous area in south-west Iran, was a troublesome part of the Akkadian Empire and the year names of the kings of Akkad record campaigns against the region. ...
The Guti were finally expelled by Uthegal, King of Uruk circa 2100 BC.
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