A tad foolish, this article.
The problem is when the answers to the problems lie in what's been long given, foolish has it been to search for answers elsewhere. But the further problem is that when answers are provided, people reactively shut down their mental systems because their bigotry will just not let them see and understand the wisdom - the solution - presented to address mankind's problems... because the solutions come and quoted from the mouth of a certain most-knowledgeable and wise bygone being, a student of the best of the beings who followed the best of the beings like a camel calf follows its mother's every footstep.
Prejudice. Bigotry. Bending and then politicisation of the Truth. That's the problem, Javed Chaudhry.
Search for Kofi Annan's statement made in the early 1990s as to the solution to the mess in the Middle East.