Enlightenment and the Present-Day Conflict In the days and nights after the smoke had cleared, and the few remaining survivors had been pulled from the debris of the fallen World Trade Center, the countries and independent states of the world were faced with a choice: Would they choose to support America, and in turn its belief in post-Enlightenment theories and practices, or would they instead choose to side with the terrorists and Islamic fundamentalists responsible …showed first 75 words of 1035 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1035 total…continue. Air strikes and ground troops cannot change the simple fact that the countries of the Muslim world have not gone through their transformation yet; they have not experienced the Enlightenment or the subsequent revolutions that the Western world went through almost 400 years ago to get to where it is today. And until they do they will never be able to see eye-to-eye, or perhaps more importantly, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their brothers from the West.