Missing a collective policy?
If respect for the rule of law and basic human rights can be considered a collective policy then maybe this author has a clue......The Arabs are their own worst enemies....... willufully embracing abusive and autocratic rulers, and in the case of the Palestinians, teaching their chidren to hate.
The problem with the Arab world can be summed up in one word: KORAN.
To Muslims, the Koran is the 'perfect' book. It is the word of Allah straight from the lips of his prophet, therefore it isn't open to interpretation or change. It's literally written in stone.
And yet an enormous amount of the backward precepts that govern Islam are inherent in it.
Somebody above mentioned killing all the terrorists. That won't do any good. In another generation you'll have a whole new bunch of terrorists and murderers. Because they get their marching orders straight from the Koran such as my tagline.
They get their dependency on the moon cycle, no interest that capitalism rests upon, their hatred of the infidel, the Haj to Mecca, their treatment of women, their 72 virgins (and 28 young boys), polygamy; all of it finds its wellspring in the Koran and until its changed, Islam won't be changed. Yet it can't be changed because its the perfect book.
That leads them down a slippery slope where any advancement or change is virtually impossible. They can't change until the Koran changes and the Koran can't change. They're in a catch-22 that they'll never be able to get out of. Islam is a backward religion and as far as the eye can see it WILL be a backward religion.
The only thing that has made it a "Great" religion is that it could field as many soldiers as needed to crush the people around it. Those days have passed though. We can kill 10 of them for every one of us that they kill with our technology.
Islam is in a box of its own making and theres not a thing they can do about it.
Godspeed