However, as a Jihadist organization claiming to represent the true Islamic Khilafat, its project will not stop at the current borders and it will continue seeking to expand its territory, which will lead to a more direct clash with the U.S. and Western interests. ... They pose an extremely hard challenge to the Western world and the "evil" United States that they are able to gather support all throughout not only the country of Iraq but throughout the entire Mesopotamian region and Northern Africa. ... It's all centrally managed, but attempts to project a diversity of voices und...

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Huntington states the "most important conflicts of the future will occur along the cultural fault lines separating" (Huntington, 1993) what he identified as eight specific civilizations: "Western, Confucian, Japanese, Islamic, Hindu, Slavic-Orthodox, Latin American and African" (Huntington, 1993). ... Fourth, as the West, and America in particular, becomes more and more powerful, popular and elite, smaller nation-states without access to or a desire for Westernization react and try to nurture their local cultures and traditional identities, thus leading to non-Western habi...

• Word Count: 1840
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Even a year before I started asking myself these questions the Persian Gulf became a second home for a lot of western soldiers. ... Many of us saw the equipment, the strength and the power of the western civilization but nobody showed the death and destruction in Iraq - it is just too much for the western world. ... Or is that just a front face, acceptable phrase for something completely different? ...

• Word Count: 1902
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• Grade Level: High School