Huntington. The nature and character of a Huntingtonian civilization are unchangeable unless on millenial time scale. [Huntingtonian civilization needs to be defined with greater rigor not merely by a religion but as a sum total of [and only of] all the sociological aspects of its life - how people relate to one another and to their groups in socially important situations, and how that society exists and self-reproduces in its sociological uniqueness. Weltanschauung, "national character" and religion belong here, too, but only in their sociological aspects]. A Georgian Dzhugashvili happened to be a perfectly adequate expression of the civilization he came to head.
You are beginning to make more sense to me on this idea. It's a very difficult one to accept, of course, but I realize it is not so different from my own views of the chechens nearly electing Basayev.