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| What future awaits the Arabs? |
| 2007-01-07 |
| By Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh Soaring and legendary are figures describing the money oil-producing Arabs spent throughout the second half of the 20th century via careless ways and primitive methods. Such funds were ample enough to make them the most powerful people on Earth. They could’ve been in a situation where nuclear bombs were their simplest weapons. They also could’ve built palaces on both near and remote planets, if they wished. But such high figures regarding Arab spending have gone with the wind due to lack of strategy or thinking about the future and what remains is a feeling of regret for what has passed. If the situation continues in this manner, Arabs will lose what remains of their riches, which are dwindling without achieving the minimum degree of protection for their homelands, which are exposed to the threat of invasion and direct occupation. I mention all of this because of the international fuss North Korea has aroused after forcing itself into the nuclear club, despite being one of the world’s poorest nations. It proved that poverty doesn’t just regard finances or material capabilities, but there’s also poverty of intellect and poverty in national pride. Strategy and determination were involved in its departure from the realm of the weak and entering the nuclear club. From there, it can move into the industrial club in order to ensure safety in the face of aggression and polarization in an age without moral coexistence, peaceful thinking or exchange of interests in accordance with the laws of justice because the powerful have transformed them into laws of transcontinental piracy. Thus, mutual fear has become the guarantee to protect the weak from being devoured. We’ve lost the 20 centuries and we’re about to lose the 21st century too. Arab efforts and their remaining riches are flying like the dust overshadowing their capitals, which are filled with ruins. After a series of disappointments, it’s not strange that this ‘great’ nation has converted from one afflicted by economic, health and military starvation and begging for the simplest components of life as a result of totally neglecting the future to concentrating on the here and now, as well as total dependence upon the enemy to be both protector and thief at the same time. Such is a trick disclosed by mad individuals among the Arabs before reasonable ones. The utmost necessity is to reconsider everything we’ve done to ourselves and against our nations and immediately begin following the right path, which guarantees future generations dignity and survival in this world. I and the bewildered masses wonder what prevents us from sincerely extending our hand to neighboring Iran to learn from it and participate with us in building up the required power to deter our aggressors, who have sentenced humiliation and deprivation against us and given our historical enemy all that makes it strongest, despite being the smallest, and putting it in control of the region’s destiny? The United States in particular and the West in general should realize that we stand with Iran regarding possessing nuclear power for peace or for war, just as they’ve stood with the Zionist entity to build its nuclear arsenal, which threatens all of us and the entire world too. What future will Arabs have without possessing a deterrent power to protect them first from their protector-thief and then from their actual enemy, the Zionist entity, as well as other enemies? I admit that this question is long, but its answer is even longer and supposes that those interested have comprehended the question and realized its dimensions in order to benefit from its answer. Since I’m one who’s sure that those asked this question are too stupid and indifferent, there’s no use indulging in an answer when those concerned don’t understand the question. Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh is Yemen’s prominent poet and intellectual. He is the director of the Yemeni Center for Studies. Source: Al-Thori newspaper |
| Posted by:john |
| #14 Yep. Can't get enough of them "Muslim scholars". Piss piss moan whine whine whine... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-01-07 22:10 |
| #13 Dr, The answer doesn't have to be long. The Arabs are hundreds of years behind the west and only have been recently exposed to the technology. They have squandered their oil wealth and Arabs nations. They're just irresponsible and their pride is hurt. Now they're trying to bum them off Iran because they're too stupid to figure it out. Stupid people shouldn't own dooms day devices. |
| Posted by: Spomort Greling4204 2007-01-07 22:06 |
| #12 At first I wondered why this story didn't have a Rantburg Sympathy Meter. Then I wondered if that was The Rantburg Give-A-Shit Meter. |
| Posted by: RIcky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2007-01-07 19:16 |
| #11 Arabs do not invent things, other than conspiracy theories, at which, they are masters |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-07 18:33 |
| #10 The Japanese had a culture that valued learning and hard work. Japan had a history of making things. The total number of books translated into Arabic yearly is no more than 330, or one-fifth of those translated in a small country like Greece. (UN Arab Human Development Report). There is no scientific research, all skilled labor is imported. Most manual labor is imported. Arabs do not make things. The much vaunted great age of islam coincided with their conquest of other peoples and assimilation of the knowledge of others - Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Indians. When conquest ceased, all Arab advances also ceased. |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-07 18:24 |
| #9 Post WWII Japan started with nothing, worked hard, educated their children and became a wealthy highly advanced 21st century power. The Arab world started with vast oil wealth and is headed in the opposite direction. If the good Dr. Al-Magaleh is an example of scholarship in the Arab world, it's easy to see why. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-01-07 18:10 |
| #8 I'm still reminded of Michael Yon's "Empty Jars©" |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-01-07 17:32 |
| #7 you will be broke within a few years buying simple food. Nope. Things rarely happen that rapidly in the world of economics (financial markets that are subject to the momentary hysteria of crowds are different). Ask anyone who's watched an incompetent management destroy a good company. It takes time. The Arabs have already started to go broke. They can no longer buy whatever they want whenever they want. And the author knows it as does everyones else in the ME. But they wouldn't do anything when they had the excess cash, so they certainly won't now. So they'll have a slow, painful descent into poverty. Little islands of royal wealth surrounded by oceans of increasingly turbulent poverty. We all know how that ends. Just like any other third world cesspool abandoned by its tin horn dictator for his Swiss bank accounts. But it was fun while it lasted. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of swine. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-01-07 16:50 |
| #6 For college English 101, this is a perfect model of essay rambling. He may well have an argument in here, but you'd have to sort past a mess to find it. Must've been that dang "flowery language" again. |
| Posted by: Jules 2007-01-07 16:26 |
| #5 As a joke it's old and geeky, but also rather prophetic: Q: Why are there no Arabs on Star Trek? A: Because it takes place in the future. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-01-07 15:41 |
| #4 Your future is a return to the barren desert rat heritage you've always had. You have no future, which is very fortunate for civilzation. When we weaken the oil lobby and turn to other energy sources, you will be broke within a few years buying simple food. You have none and no ability to sustain yourselves. We'll drain you within a very few years. Then, we'll piss on you and forget your very existence. |
| Posted by: SpecOp35 2007-01-07 14:47 |
| #3 If the situation continues in this manner, Arabs will lose what remains of their riches, which are dwindling without achieving the minimum degree of protection for their homelands, which are exposed to the threat of invasion and direct occupation. Without oil nobody would want their stinking shithole land, even if the Arabs weren't there. What a fantasy. They are destined to squander their resources, get a few million (or more?) Arabs nuked by stupid decisions, and still not be able to build a microwave oven (as someone else so eloquently commented here). Their Imams and Mullahs will keep them ignorant and rabid (and unvaccinated) til a plague wipes out the remainder, and eventually, they'll be gone, leaving the Earth a better place without them. Good luck, Ummah, you deserve your future, and you can always blame the Joooooos |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-01-07 14:37 |
| #2 The future of the Arabs is grim. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-01-07 14:35 |
| #1 The lack of understanding of so many things ... economics, history, technology is so breathtaking.. ...and what is this obsession with ruling the world? |
| Posted by: john 2007-01-07 14:11 |