War & Peace Quote by Walid Jumblatt

America, in Walid Jumblatt's telling, is a superpower with a narrative addiction: it needs a villain to organize its politics, justify its wars, and steady a public that might otherwise ask harder questions about costs and motives. "It comes and goes" is the key tell. Enemies here are not discovered; they are selected, rotated in and out like props in a long-running production. By naming Islam as the current target, Jumblatt is speaking from the post-9/11 moment when "terror" slid into a civilizational frame and Islam became, for many Western audiences, a shorthand for threat.

The line about "born-again Christians" allied with "Zionism" is doing two things at once: it points to a specific American coalition (evangelical politics fused with hawkish pro-Israel ideology) and it warns that religion is being used as geopolitical accelerant. Jumblatt isn't just accusing the U.S. of strategic opportunism; he's arguing that domestic culture-war theology is shaping foreign policy, turning conflict into moral theater. Calling Islam "the monster" is deliberately blunt, a phrase meant to expose how dehumanization works: monsters don't get negotiated with, they get hunted.

Context matters. Jumblatt is a Lebanese Druze leader who has lived through proxy wars, sectarian violence, and the way global powers instrumentalize local identities. His provocation is aimed at Western audiences that treat the "enemy" as self-evident and at regional audiences who experience the consequences when that enemy-story becomes policy: surveillance, interventions, and a securitized view of Muslim life.