I don’t care all that much for the book, but I often think of a passage Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations: “The West won the world not by t

I don’t care all that much for the book, but I often think of a passage Samuel Huntington wrote in The Clash of Civilizations: “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”