Hladnik Milharčič on the current world order

Slovenian journalist Ervin Hladnik Milharčič reflects in his column for the daily Dnevnik on the current world order: "What has become of the clash of civilisations? Six months ago the world was about to be destroyed by terrorists, the planet was on its last legs, but at least the world order was intact. On the one side you had civilisation, on the other the Muslims. We were immersed in a battle for survival. And then suddenly everything went quiet. Who won? … The war on terrorism was a serious matter in the context of the clash of civilisations. How could this global war simply have been erased from our vocabulary? Particularly in view of the fact that police stations are still being blown up in Iraq, terrorists are still occupying police academies in Pakistan and the Taliban is producing so much opium in Afghanistan that Russia and Iran are slowly collapsing as a result of the low price of heroin. It's almost as if the Islamists and their opponents had found a common language. [Meanwhile] the war against global terrorism continues, but now it goes under the name of the war against the global economic crisis."

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