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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Katelew who wrote (215992)2/2/2007 4:11:12 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Not really, got to start somewhere.

I really don't see the Arab world making any progress until it somehow rids itself of its tribal mentality. Unfortunately, oil wealth exacerbates the problem in the oil-rich countries. With the price of oil set to stay very high thanks to higher demand and dwindling supply, the transfer of wealth will be enormous. So far that transfer of wealth has mostly resulted in a tremendous waste of lots and lots money and a continuing devotion to the tribal model, a model which doesn't work in this day and age.

So long as the Arabs do not make progress, they'll be a millstone around the West's neck thanks to terrorism and endemic instability in a part of the world which is terribly important to the West.
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