Comments on: Kaplan’s Intellectual Honesty

By: ComingAnarchy.com » Blog Archive » C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre (yet)

Mon, 07 Nov 2005 02:42:57 +0000

[...] Kaplan later said his dire predictions about racial clashes in the United States were wrong, but the concept holds true: societies that do not properly integrate minorities and immigrants socially and economically will result in the disenfranchised resenting the society they live in. They will lash out, often in bursts of coordinated violence. Europe has a serious problem on its hand that it must figure out by itself. [...]

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 02:51:16 +0000

I think it was mentioned in passing in the first essay. He didn’t go into any detail about it.

By: Chief Wiggum

Chief Wiggum — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:55:43 +0000

As I recall in Coming Anarchy Kaplan also said the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was over (this was after the signing of the Oslo accords). Misteaks of this kind are made when you assume that both parties are dealing in good faith.

By: Kenneth

Kenneth — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:08:38 +0000

Refreshing indeed. That was the only really nebulous part of Kaplan’s book: he wasn’t really specific about how something confined to a continent already screwed beyond all repair could pertain to us, or do so in a manner we could not counter.

By: mark safranski

mark safranski — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 19:29:25 +0000

Very commendable ( and insightful) on Kaplan’s part. If his attitude was more widespread among other media heavyweights the MSM would be a lot more useful an interesting. Too many of the celebrity pundits, esp. the TV guys on Sunday morning, let their ego get in the way of their analysis.

By: IJ

IJ — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:51:44 +0000

>You write in The Coming Anarchy that, “Africa’s distress will exert a destabilizing influence on the US and that factor and many others will make the US less of a nation than it is today.”Ã�? KAPLAN: That was wrong.