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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Who does? The jabbering religious loons, or the hundreds of millions of people that lead normal lives?
As for a "superpower", for the "winner" to become a superpower, a whole whack of them states, Arab or otherwise, are going to have to get it together and co-operate enough to get anywhere near that level. Do you think that's going to happen anytime soon?
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I'm not sure if you noticed this, but in a lot of cases the jabbering religious loons are the ones in power. In addition, just like there are Canadians and Americans who would suggest that all middle-easterners are terrorists, the same can be about some middle easterners thinking that all white people are immoral and corrupt. What is a normal life in a country that endorses stoning people to death for holding hands in public?
Soon? Certainly not, and that's the point. When did all this trouble in the middle east start erupting? When money started flowing into the region. Arab nationalists would like to create Pan-Arab state and there are a lot of countries that would do anything to stop that. So they are, and they have been.