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Turkey In General Became Too Involved With What Is Happening In Egypt And In Syria. Some Politicians With Neo-ottoman Dreams Developed This Idea Of Being A Major Player In The Middle East, Which Hasn't Gone As Expected.

We're Stuck. We're Stuck Between The East And The West. Between The Past And The Future. On The One Hand There Are The Secular Modernists, So Proud Of The Regime They Constructed, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The Army And Half Of The State On Their Side. On The Other Hand There Are The Conventional Traditionalist, So Infatuated With The Ottoman Past, You Cannot Breathe A Critical Word. They've Got The General Public And The Remaining Half Of The State On Their Side.

Because Time Is A Drop In The Ocean, And You Cannot Measure Off One Drop Against Another To See Which One Is Bigger, Which One Is Smaller.

I See What You Mean. It Must Be A Huge Relief, And An Easy Way Out, To Think The Devil Is Always Outside Of Us. (…) We Would Stop Looking For Sheitan Outside And Instead Focus On Ourselves. What We Need Is Sincere Self-examination. Not Being On The Watch For The Faults Of Others.” (p. 257).

If You Want To Destroy Something In This Life, Be It An Acne, A Blemish Or The Human Soul, All You Need To Do Is To Surround It With Thick Walls. It Will Dry Up Inside.