I have lived and worked in the ME for multiple years. There have been chicken little stories for decades about the supply drying up. To a degree they are right. When the Saudi (or arab in general) governements nationalized the oil supplies, they made billions. THis was spent like a drunken sailor. Now, a level of realistic maturity seems to be setting in. Using the law of supply and demand the arabs are merely insuring a seady income at an acceptable level for their bloated lifestyle. A lot can be said about the poverty of the arabs, but, from what I have seen, it is the caste system that is at fault. It is HIGHLY unlikely to ever see a Saudi get his hands dirty. They like to sthink of themselves as above all that. Usually they get the Paks or the Filipinos to do the scut work and they sit back and sip tea and count their money. This has set the stage for a cultural lifestyle that is a bit difficlut to maintain. Compounding this, is a sense of unfullfillment on the part of the young men. (idle hands, devils workshop you know) The ONLY heros that they have are terrorists. (Know any big name arab ball players???) So with the role models being what they are, there is little recourse for the yourth to take. Islam is just and excuse. Most of the younger terrorists are merely bored young men that have fallen under the spel of ture evil in the form of the Immams (every seen a young Immam??) and psycho-sociopathic islamofacists that are bent on the establishement of a worldwide islamic caliphate. These young men and women see that they are at war with the West and the Chrisitan culture and are being brainwashed. To the Arabs, oil is just another weapon like an AK47 or a Stechkin. In the end, it is going to be Christian vs Islam with the others eithe picking sides or desparately trying to become the "peacemakers". That is except for Tom Cruise who will be trying to detonate a volcano.....
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