Fear of violence and/or the necessity of dealing with violence are key factors in hampering reform in most Arab states. And the terrorists damn well know it, as they are demonstrating in Iraq.
1 posted on
06/26/2006 6:54:39 PM PDT by
lancer
To: lancer
Arabity. A society organized on tribal and sectarian basis cannot fail to be a failure under contemporary conditions. This social structure [more or less] sufficed and worked about a 1000 years ago when the challenges were qualitatively different. Oman, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait, which Taheri lists as working societies, are small and weak and survive on sufferance.
2 posted on
06/26/2006 7:54:14 PM PDT by
GSlob
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