[chuckee]

Does it really make any difference what system of government a muslim mideast nation adopts? Democracy, dicatatorship, sharia, plutocracy, communism, socialism. The end result will always be the same with them broke and hating the West. The system of government is not why this is a region of losers. It is the Islamic mindset that will always maintain this region as global cultural and economic losers.They deserve their fate and the West should not lift a finger to help them. A little benign neglect is in order.

[Max in Utah]

The system of government is not why this is a region of losers. It is the Islamic mindset that will always maintain this region as global cultural and economic losers.

I believe Winston Churchill called islam "the strongest retrograde force in existence." I agree. Their biggest claim to cultural advancement is that they popularized the mathematical concept of 'zero,' a concept which they swiped from someone else.

[bassmaner]

A little benign neglect is in order.

That'll work until they try to pull another 9/11 here. Let's hope that if they do, they wait until after 1/20/2013 at 12 noon, when President Palin takes the oath of office.

[neverdem]

A little benign neglect is in order.

If that doesn't work, how about active quarantine?