[pfflier]

-The Marshall plan worked because Germany, even defeated, was predominately Christian, civilized and very ordered in it's social structure.

Nation building, by contrast in the Middle East, has to deal with tribalism, an uneducated and superstitious population and most detrimental, a religious base rooted in the seventh century.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

——and most detrimental, a religious base rooted in the seventh century.——

Islam is horrible, but not because it was founded in the 7th century. After all, Christianity was founded in the first.

Chronology and truth/goodness are unrelated.