It is amazing that the places humanity has had the longest time to practice civilization, are often where it is the most troubled. Thanks for the article.
The current make=up in the Middle East is young - remember the Arabs supplanted the native people there.
Also, Western Europe is also young in that that Germanic barbarians also over ran the older nations there.
Maybe WW1 and WW2 are a result of that youthful blood lust of the Western European peoples?