One thing that Germany and Japan had was a sense of order and civility ingrained in their societies and the people still had a desire to return to it.
The mideast doesn’t have a history of civility ingrained in the people. They have a history of brutality that is like mortar of the bricks that make them. Men brutalize those they see as lesser men, all men brutalize the women, women brutalize women they see as lesser women and all the people brutalize the children and the children brutalize each other.
I do a lot of online work for a couple who travel all over the world. They call Dubai the fragile glass diamond of middle eastern civilization. They say its a facade to attract western dollars but in the shadows of the skyscrapers is the same brutal middle east.
Thank you that is a much better way of putting it. I agree about the mideast. In spite of a long bloody history I think they are further from having a sense of order and civility now than they ever have been.